Peter Glenister

Vice President
Africa Middle East Asia (AMEA)

Peter is currently managing the AMEA region with responsibility for the growth, development and business (including financial) management of the AMEA GeoMarket across all Group functional areas, divisions and service lines. Core to this role is maintaining regional account management and client relationship responsibilities.

Peter has over twenty years of management experience from the military, private and humanitarian sectors in both general management and logistics management roles.  Working for the International Red Cross and British Red Cross primarily in Emergency Response and Surge Capacity Management, Peter has a wealth of experience in mobilising and managing international emergency response operations.  As a corporate planning and reporting manager supporting the senior management team and the board at British Red Cross, Peter had planning and reporting responsibility for both international and domestic humanitarian sector programming.  He has qualified for logistics cluster management completing the UN Logistics Response Team training in Brindisi Italy. He is a Red Cross Emergency Response Unit (ERU) Team Leader with numerous successful missions managing the ERU including the 2005 London bombings (beneficiary grants payments), 2007 Bangladesh Cyclone Sidr response, 2007 UK Gloucestshire floods, 2009 Gaza crisis response and most recently 2010 Pakistan Floods.  Peter has had various roles during his career in the private sector in Australia, UK and now the UAE.

Peter has a Master of Business and Administration (UK), a Bachelor of Arts (History & Politics) and has completed an extensive range of professional training and development activities during his career.