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Frank Steer MBE
Director General of the Chartered Quality Institute
Brigadier (retired) Frank Steer is a military logistician with 34 years
experience worldwide supplying troops on operations. Educated at St Ignatius
College, North London, Frank was commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps
in 1966. He served in a wide range of operational staff and logistic
appointments throughout the world and was Commander Supply in Saudi Arabia
during the first Gulf War in 1991.
Closely involved in mounting the Falklands War, the GI/G4 for the British Force
in Beirut, Commander Supply in Berlin and Commander Supply in the Gulf War, he
has extensive experience of supporting Armed Forces at war and in peace. Frank
was appointed a Member of the British Empire for service in Beirut in 1984.
Having retired from the British Army in 1999, Frank is now Director General of
the Chartered Quality Institute in London, President of the European
Organisation for Quality and a member of the Advisory Board to the International
Society of Logistics. He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of
Purchasing and Supply and the Institute of Logistics and Transport, and is a
Member of the City and Guilds Institute.
He also lectures internationally on leadership, quality, logistics and military
history, and is acknowledged as a first class facilitator and leader of
workshops and seminars. He leads tours of the battlefields at Waterloo and
Arnhem, and recently led a group of Belgian businessmen around the field of
Waterloo to evaluate the difference modern management techniques might have made
to the outcome of the battle.
An author, his first three published works are connected with the Battle of
Arnhem, and he is now engaged in writing the history of the Royal Army Ordnance
Corps from 1918 to 1993. He has also written a novel set in the first ten months
of the First World War and is seeking an agent or a publisher. During his
military service he was the author of a number of works on logistics,
particularly in a coalition context and involving the UN. He also wrote a major
Ministry of Defence study into sustainability.
Frank is a Trustee of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps charitable trust,
established to see to the needs of those members of the Corps who have fallen on
hard times. He is also a Trustee of the Royal Logistic Corps museum, having just
been part of the team that has seen through a significant re-design and re
launch of the museum. The Princess Royal opened it on 8 May 2003. The web sites
are on the Useful Links page.
Frank has been married to Virginia for 36 years, has 5 children and 5
grandchildren and lives in Kent.