Major General Karsten Stoye
Head of Civil-Military Cooperation
Military Advisor to the Director General
EUROCONTROL Civil-Military Cooperation Division
Brussels, Belgium
Bio:
Major General Karsten Stoye assumed his position as Head of Civil-Military Cooperation
and Military Advisor to the Director General at Eurocontrol after his previous
assignment as Chief of Staff at NATO’s Headquarters Allied Air Command at Ramstein
Air Base, on 1 October 2021.
After studying economics and administrative science at the University of the
German Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, General Stoye has served in various operational
and staff positions.
As a senior operations officer and command pilot in the Tactical Reconnaissance Wing 51
‘Immelmann’, he contributed from 1995 to 1996 to the United Nations and NATO missions
during the conflict in the Former Yugoslavia. In 1998 he graduated from the
Command and General Staff Officer Course at the Federal Armed Forces Command and Staff
College in Hamburg.
Until 2000, General Stoye served as a Branch Chief at the NATO Combined Air Operations
Centre 4 (CAOC 4) in Messstetten, Germany, where he was responsible for training and
exercises. In 1999 he contributed to the NATO Operation in Kosovo as Chief Air Task Order
Planner at the Balkan CAOC in Vicenza.
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