Full Name
Mietta Groeneveld
Job Title
Director
Company
NATO Command & Control Centre of Excellence
Speaker Bio
Colonel Mietta Groeneveld is the Director of the NATO Command & Control Centre of Excellence (C2COE). The C2COE’s core mission is to accelerate NATO’s transformation in Command and Control, focusing on enabling NATO’s Multi-Domain Operations, transforming multinational headquarters through technology, and improving multinational decision-making in the age of AI.
Since joining the military in 1986, Colonel Groeneveld has held a range of command and staff positions at the technical, operational, and strategic levels. She earned a Master’s degree in Applied Physics from Technical University Delft and, in 2014, completed both the Canadian National Security Program (NSP6) in Toronto and the EU High-Level Course on Security & Defence.
Following these achievements, she has held key positions at the international strategic level. In the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Crimea, she served as the Branch Head for Multilateral Military Affairs. She also represented the Netherlands on the NATO Logistics Committee and the Committee on Standardization. Additionally, she chaired the board of the BENELUX Arms Control Agency and the NATO CIMIC COE and was a board member of the Strategic Airlift Capability C-17 and the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE). In recent years, she has served as the President of AFCEA The Hague.
Her deployments include a 2002 mission to Kyrgyzstan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and a 2017-2018 tour in Afghanistan, where she was CJ4/EF5 of the Training and Advisory Command-North and held the NLD-SNR/red card for the Resolute Support Mission.
Colonel Groeneveld has substantial expertise in emerging technologies, cybersecurity and their impact on the command and control of multinational Deterrence and Defence. She is a frequent public speaker at international NATO and technology events and a driver for change in the art of war.
Since joining the military in 1986, Colonel Groeneveld has held a range of command and staff positions at the technical, operational, and strategic levels. She earned a Master’s degree in Applied Physics from Technical University Delft and, in 2014, completed both the Canadian National Security Program (NSP6) in Toronto and the EU High-Level Course on Security & Defence.
Following these achievements, she has held key positions at the international strategic level. In the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Crimea, she served as the Branch Head for Multilateral Military Affairs. She also represented the Netherlands on the NATO Logistics Committee and the Committee on Standardization. Additionally, she chaired the board of the BENELUX Arms Control Agency and the NATO CIMIC COE and was a board member of the Strategic Airlift Capability C-17 and the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE). In recent years, she has served as the President of AFCEA The Hague.
Her deployments include a 2002 mission to Kyrgyzstan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and a 2017-2018 tour in Afghanistan, where she was CJ4/EF5 of the Training and Advisory Command-North and held the NLD-SNR/red card for the Resolute Support Mission.
Colonel Groeneveld has substantial expertise in emerging technologies, cybersecurity and their impact on the command and control of multinational Deterrence and Defence. She is a frequent public speaker at international NATO and technology events and a driver for change in the art of war.
