Team Member

Conrad Schubert
Northern Advisor
Conrad Schubert is the Advisor to the Commander Joint Task Force North with a broad remit to include relations with Indigenous and territorial governments, their departments and agencies as well as other federal departments.
He has lived in the North for 30 years and spent the last 24 years working in the Canadian Armed Forces’ Team North and traveling throughout the Canadian North as both an infantry officer, and now as a civilian. In nine years at 1 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group headquarters in Yellowknife he gained insight into the essential relationship between the Canadian Armed Forces and the Indigenous people of the North. He then raised C Company of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and served as officer commanding both full-time and later part-time until 2015 and then again in 2021-2022, looking at the equipment, tactics and priorities of the Canadian army in the North.
Since 2012, concurrent with his work with LER he worked as intergovernmental affairs advisor, civil-military cooperation officer and NWT liaison officer at Joint Task Force North. Beginning in 2016 he has focused on civil-military engagement and extending JTFN’s relationships with Alaska Command, with Danish Joint Arctic Command in Nuuk, Greenland and with Canada’s allies in the circumpolar world.
Since 2020 he has served as lead planner for the Arctic Security Working Group, drawing together the whole of government with academia and NGOs to examine factors of human security in the Canadian Arctic.
Conrad is a graduate of Carleton University (BA Poli-Sci), and University of Ottawa (Hons History, and BEd). He is also a graduate of the Canadian Forces Land Staff College and holds certification as a ground search instructor, search master and a NCCP Shooting Coach.
Conrad moderates panel discussions on Arctic operations as part of the US DoD’s Ted Stevens Center’s Arctic Regional Security Orientation Course. He is an alumnus of the US DoD’s George C Marshall Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and of the Ted Stevens Center in Anchorage. He briefs on best practices in federal-Indigenous engagement to CIRNAC’s Engagement, Consultation and Accomodation Training course. He is also a member of the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network’s Northern Advisory Board.
He enjoys being outdoors, reading, family, and languages.