About Us
Laura Garrod, PhD, Principal
Dr. Garrod is the principal and founder of Civil Affairs Consulting. She has over fifteen years of academic and practical experience in Civil-Military training and education. Dr. Garrod’s published dissertation, “Partners in Peace? A Comparative Study of U.S. and New Zealand Military-NGO Relations”, offers practical solutions to improve the Military-NGO relationship in complex emergencies. Since 2008, she has assisted in the development and management of live immersive training support programs and Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) sites for the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army, U.S. National Guard, Canadian Forces, and British Army. Dr. Garrod has extensive experience developing civil affairs, military studies, political science, international relations, and cultural studies curriculum. She has delivered training area, classroom, and web-based instruction and practicum within the defense sector and academia.
Patrick Mohr, Senior Consultant
Mr. Mohr is a retired U.S. Marine Corps combat and experimental test pilot and now a Senior Consultant for Civil Affairs Consulting. He has extensive experience in exercise design, staffing, support, and execution ranging from joint service CONUS exercises and multinational military operations to Department of Homeland Security and state and local agency training. Mr. Mohr is well-versed in modern military planning processes on strategic, operational and tactical levels including rapid response variants of expeditionary operations. He has developed joint Civil-Military curriculum and scenarios and led exercise planning and control for military and civil agencies. During his 20 year career in the Marine Corps, Mr. Mohr completed 3200 flight hours in over 30 aircraft type/model/series with advanced leadership, tactics, instructor, standardization, and test flight qualifications and designations.
