Armistice Lecture 2024

Justin Maciejewski DSO MBE is the Director General of the National Army Museum. Justin’s leadership experience spans the commercial sector as well as the military, following five years with McKinsey & Company as a management consultant and a 27-year career in the British Army. He has a lifelong interest in Military History. His last appointment in the Army was Director Combat, the professional head of the Royal Armoured Corps and the Infantry. Prior to that he had extensive command and staff experience and was awarded the DSO after commanding his battalion, the 2nd Battalion The Rifles, in Iraq.  During his time with McKinsey, Justin led projects supporting clients in the private, public and third sectors, focusing on corporate strategy and the planning, implementation and leadership of large-scale business change and development.

On leaving the Army, Justin held a brief visiting fellowship at Oxford in 2012 as part of the Changing…