Dan Blanchford
- Director Defence and National Security
- Prevail Partners, UK
Dan recently joined the strategic leadership team at Prevail Partners as Director Defence and National Security. He retired as a Major-General following a 34-year career in the Royal Marines, specialising in operations and crisis leadership. Dan served with UK Special Forces, commanded Operation PITTING the multinational evacuation from Kabul and served as the Head of Military Operations in the MOD where he oversaw military support to UK resilience operations, including Op ISOTROPE the military support to managing Cross Channel Immigration.
In his final role in the MOD, he was the Senior responsible owner for the cross Government delivery of the Afghan Resettlement Programme. He brings deep expertise in defence, inter-agency coordination, and national security.
Prevail specialises in national and border security and is a long-established partner to UK and international government clients. We design and operationalise multi-layered ISR architectures, integrating maritime domain awareness and multi-source intelligence, strengthening border security and sovereign protection.
Sessions
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Maritime and Big Rivers
Maritime, port and coastal border security: How can we best guard the coast and major ports from international organised criminal activities, including human trafficking and drug smuggling?
Maritime borders present some of the most difficult and challenging environments facing agencies at the border worldwide. Archipelago nations like Indonesia and the Philippines have vast maritime territories with thousands of islands to surveil and patrol with limited resources and changing weather conditions. And maritime borders don’t stop at the coast. Multi-national river systems like those of the Danube, Nile, Mekong, Niger and Rhine take the maritime environment deep into the hinterland with overlapping jurisdictions that can lead to confusion, often making it difficult to establish a consistent security presence. These geographic and political complexities necessitate enhanced cooperation and communication among nations to develop integrated security strategies that respect sovereignty while effectively addressing transnational threats.