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Major General Mark Pullan
Director - Operations and Planning Division
Dec 2025 - Present
Dec 2025 - Present
Major General Mark Pullan was born in 1971 and educated at the John Hampden Grammar School, Buckinghamshire before spending six years studying architecture at Hull University. He commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst into the Royal Artillery in 1996.
His early career is marked by a regular operational drumbeat consisting of Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq interspersed with numerous training opportunities in Germany, Poland and Canada. He was selected for Battery Command at 19th Regiment Royal Artillery, which included further operational tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. A tour in the J3 Division of PJHQ followed, allowing him to remain operationally focussed on Afghanistan whilst being charged with improving in-theatre operational capability. Selected as Second in Command of 1 st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, he deployed once again to Afghanistan, this time as the Chief of Staff of the Joint Fires and ISTAR Group.
On promotion and completion of the Advanced Command and Staff Course he was posted to Army Resources and Plans in the Ministry of Defence as SO1 Army Plans, where he was responsible for the development of Strategic Policy and Army Structures. He was then selected to command 16 th Regiment Royal Artillery. His time in command consisted of out of role deployments to Afghanistan, whilst concurrently delivering the enduring Falkland Islands standing commitment. On promotion to Colonel he was selected Programme Director for all Joint Effects capability development within Army HQ and became the Senior Responsible Officer for several high profile equipment programmes, including the Watchkeeper project. In 2016, Brigadier Pullan attended the Higher Command and Staff Course and was subsequently selected to Command 1 st Artillery Brigade, part of 3 (UK) Division. From Brigade Command he moved to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe to lead the team developing Deterrence and Defence in the Euro-Atlantic; Director DDA Implementation Group (DDIG). On promotion to Major General in September 2022 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff Plans at Joint Force Command Brunssum in the Netherlands. As a part of the New Year’s Honours list 2023 Major General Pullan was awarded a promotion to Commander in the military division of the most excellent order of the British Empire.
Major General Pullan is married to Clare and they have two sons, Jack and Harry. He is a big sports fan and will try anything once. He is a proud Chairman of the Armed Forces Para-Snowsport Team charity, Army Squash and Royal Artillery Nordic Skiing.