Education
Harvard University; New York University.
Harvard University; New York University.
Educated at Wellington College, New York University and Jesus College, Oxford, Jackling joined the Ministry of Defence in 1969. He was appointed a Fellow of the Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University in 1985 and Principal of the Civil Service College in 1986. He went on to be Deputy Under-Secretary (Resources, Programmes & Finance) and then Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence from 1997.
He was appointed Director General of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom on its formation in 2002.