Lieutenant General (Ret.) Dr. Dennis Gyllensporre is the Chairperson of the NATO DIANA (Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic) Board of Directors and Associate Professor in Security Policy and Strategy at the Swedish Defence University. He also holds office as the Vice President of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences.
Gyllensporre completed three years of service as the Force Commander for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). He came from a four-year appointment as the Chief of Defence Staff and Head of Special Forces of the Swedish Armed Forces. Gyllensporre has served as a staff officer in various positions, including tours abroad in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sudan, and served as a military advisor in international crisis management at the MoD.
He has served as chief of staff at the Swedish Joint Operations Command and later as head of the Doctrine and Concepts Branch at the European Union Military Staff. In 2008, he was deployed to Afghanistan as the Chief of Staff in Regional Command North of the NATO-led operation (ISAF).
He has studied at multifold military institutions and holds several academic degrees, including a Master of Science in Computer Science (Royal National Institute of Technology, Sweden), Master of Business Administration (Warwick University, United Kingdom), Master of Military Arts and Science (US Army Command and General Staff College), as well as a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis and Governance (Maastricht University, the Netherlands).
Gyllensporre is the recipient of The Swedish Royal Order of the Sword for leadership excellence and the Swedish Armed Forces Medal of Merit in gold for distinguished leadership during combat and war-like situations. He was awarded the French Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur.
Gyllensporre is inaugurated to the Hall of Fame at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (2017) and the U.S. National Defense University (2022). He is the author of several books and academic articles on the military strategy and security studies, including European Security.
