IDEaS 2025 Speakers

Defence Excellence

Major General Karsten Stoye

Major General Karsten Stoye

Head of Civil-Military Cooperation
Military Advisor to the Director General

EUROCONTROL Civil-Military Cooperation Division
Brussels, Belgium

Keynote: Challenges of AI in an ATM environment


 

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.