Glenn Kolomeitz

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Dr Glenn Kolomeitz


Profile

Dr Glenn Kolomeitz is an international law consultant and defence analyst in his own firm and has been a sessional lecturer in undergraduate international criminal law, international law, and criminal law and in postgraduate intelligence management, military law and the law of targeting, and coronial law. In 2023, Glenn was on the ground in Ukraine investigating Russian targeting patterns for an open-source intelligence firm and advising International Legion intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance force elements on the preservation of evidence during post-contact sensitive site exploitation.

In addition to undergraduate degrees in law, policing, and intelligence analysis, Glenn has postgraduate degrees in international law, strategic intelligence, military law, defence studies, investigations management, fraud and financial crime, and business administration. His doctoral thesis was on command responsibility for war crimes.

Glenn joined the ADF in 1986 and, after completing his Year 12 in the Army, was commissioned as an RAAF operations officer trained in targeting. In 1998, Glenn transferred to the Army Reserve as a military police officer and investigations manager and joined NSW Police where he specialised in coronial investigations and counter terrorism. From 2005 to 2007, Glenn was the defence policy adviser to Federal Labor in Opposition before returning to the Regular Army as a legal officer and subsequently deploying to East Timor and Afghanistan. Glenn’s last appointment was as a military prosecutor based in Canberra. He presently holds a solicitor practising certificate in NSW and previously held barrister practising certificates in the ACT and the NT.