Lieutenant Colonel Mark Meeuwissen graduated from the Royal Military Academy Brussels in 1988 with a master’s in military and Aeronautical Science. His career as a pilot was performed on F-16 in the Fighter-Bomber role and on NATO AWACS up to pilot-evaluator. On both platforms, he participated multiple times in several operations: Operation Deliberate Guard/Joint Falcon (Balkans), Baltic QRA (Air Policing), Afghan Assist, and Active Endeavour. Besides National Headquarters and Air Staff in the Operations and Planning Divisions, he fulfilled two CAOC tours, the first in the Training and Exercises Branch and the second as Defensive Planner in the Plans Division. He spent three years in Eindhoven in the EATC (European Air Transport Command) as supervisor for the European-American region. In September 2021, he joined JAPCC, where he was the Air Operations Planning SME. End of October 2024, he left JAPCC for a new assignment in the Requirements Division of the NAEW&CF HQ in Geilenkirchen.