Fred Schreier is a consultant with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. A retired colonel, he has served in various command and general staff positions and in different functions in the Swiss Ministry of Defense as a senior civil servant. He is a graduate in international relations of the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationals, Geneva, and in strategic studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.