Adam Moore

Colonel Adam Moore enrolled as an infantry officer in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1996. Upon graduation from the Royal Military College of Canada in 2000, he was commissioned into Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) and posted to Second Battalion, PPCLI in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Colonel Moore served in a variety of command and staff appointments with the Second and Third Battalions of his regiment; the most recent as the Commanding Officer of Third Battalion, PPCLI from 2018-2020. Extra-regimental duties include service with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, the Land Forces Western Area Training Centre, within the Canadian Army Headquarters, with 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters, as a Dean at the Canadian Army Command and Staff College and as the Chief of Staff at the Canadian Defence Academy.

His operational experience includes four domestic and four international deployments. In Canada, he supported the Province of British Columbia with wildfire response as a company second-in-command (2003) and as the Land Task Force Commander (2018) as well as twice supporting the Province of Manitoba with flood mitigation efforts as a company commander (2008). Internationally, Colonel Moore has operational deployments to Bosnia-Herzegovina as a civil-military cooperation liaison officer (2000-2001), two to Afghanistan; as a platoon commander (2002) and as the second-in-command of the 2 PPCLI Battle Group’s Administration Company (2008), and to Iraq (2019-2020) as the Commanding Officer of the Canadian National Command and Support Element in Iraq.

Colonel Moore holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Defence Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada and is a graduate of the Canadian Army Command and Staff College and the Joint Command and Staff Programme at the Canadian Forces College.

Colonel Moore is currently undertaking Officer Developmental Period 4 studies and is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University.

Current Interests/Research:

• Artificial Intelligence