Claire Pearson has served in a variety of ISR roles in the Air and Joint domains. With a Joint Operations bias, she has deployed as an embed officer in US 10th Mountain Light Infantry Division (Kandahar, Afghanistan), an embed in ISAF HQ (Kabul, Afghanistan), a UN Peacekeeper in UNMISS (Bor, South Sudan), and to the Middle East. Claire has been posted to numerous staff roles in HQJOC and JCG, served as a MA, Sub-unit Commander, and XO. As a qualified military Gender Advisor, she is a passionate advocate of applying a gendered perspective to vulnerable persons and also to all foreign combatants during the Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) process to achieve operational success.