Former Chairman NATO Military Committee

Klaus Naumann is a retired 4-star general of the German army. He was elected chairman of the North Atlantic Military Committee by the NATO chiefs of defence at their December 1994 meeting, holding the position from February 1996 until May 1999. He retired from his position as general near the end of the Kosovo campaign, after which he served as a member of the UN Panel on UN Peace Operations in 2000. In 2001 he went on to serve as a member of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. During his army career, general Naumann also received numerous military awards and decorations, including Commander's Cross of the Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur (France); Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Militar con Distintivo Blanco (Spain); and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (UK). He has also written several books including Die Bundeswehr in einer Welt im Umbruch (1994) and Peace: The Unaccomplished Mission (2002).