Education
King"s College London.
officer commander Central Bank
King"s College London.
Educated at Merchant Taylors" School and at King"s College London (Master of Arts Defence Studies), Harwood joined the Royal Air Force as a fast-jet pilot in 1978, initially serving as a Flying Instructor on Hawk and Harrier GR3/T4 aircraft. Promoted to Wing Commander, he became Commanding Officer of 20 Squadron Royal Air Force (Harrier Operational Conversion Unit) at Royal Air Force Wittering in 1998, and following promotion to Group Captain, he became Commander British Forces (Gulf) in Saudi Arabia in 2000. He went on to be Station Commander, Royal Air Force Cottesmore in 2001 before being deployed as Operating Base Commander, Kuwait for Op TELIC in 2003.
He joined the Public Relations Directorate at the Ministry of Defence in 2004, became Assistant Commandant (Air) at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in 2005 and was the appointed Chief of the ISAF Detachment, CENTAF Combined Air Operations Centre at First Rate (at Lloyd's) Udeid with the rank of Air Commodore in September 2007.
Harwood became Air Officer Commanding 83 Expeditionary Air Group, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Udeid (Air Cdre) in 2008. He was promoted Air Vice-Marshal and appointed Head of the British Defence Staff – United States and Defence Attaché in November 2008.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (Central Bank) in the 2012 New Year Honours.