Colonel Mietta Groeneveld

Director, Command and Control Centre of Excellence NATO

Colonel Mietta Groeneveld is the Director of the NATO Command & Control Centre of Excellence (C2COE). The C2COE provides NATO with expertise in Command and Control, currently focusing on the development of NATO Multi-Domain Command and Control, the transformation of operational level headquarters driven by technology and MDO, and the cultural change of future decision makers. Since joining the military in 1986, Colonel Groeneveld has occupied a range of command and staff positions across the technical, operational, and strategic levels. She earned a Master’s degree in Applied Physics and, in 2014, completed both the Canadian National Security Program (NSP6) in Toronto and the EU High-Level Course on Security & Defence. Following these achievements, she has held several positions at the international strategic level. In the immediate aftermath of the Russian invasion of Crimea, she was the Branch Head for Multilateral Military Affairs. She also served as the Netherlands’ representative on the NATO Logistics Committee and the Committee on Standardisation. Furthermore, she was the Chair of the board for the BENELUX Arms Control Agency and the NATO CIMIC COE, as well as a board member for the Strategic Airlift Capability C-17 and the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) and Chairmen of AFCEA The Hague. Colonel Groeneveld’s deployments include a 2002 mission to Kyrgyzstan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and a 2017-2018 tour in Afghanistan, where she was CJ4/EF5 of the Training and Advisory Command-North and held the NLD-SNR/red card for the Resolute Support Mission.