A linguist educated in Oxford and at the Sorbonne, Stefan Templeton studied shipbroking in 1990 while working as a structural weld inspector on oil platforms in the North Sea, having completed a rigorous training in deep-sea saturation diving in France, and went on to become an airborne search-and-rescue paramedic and disaster management specialist.
He currently holds the rank of Commander in ELISA (Light Airborne Medical Rescue Squadron) based in Cruas, France and has led and co-ordinated civil-military operations most recently in Padang, Indonesia.
Baltimore City College alumnus Attended Mount Royal Elementary/Middle School #66 Templeton has acted as coordinator and civil-military forward field liaison in numerous airborne missions that he has organized in Honduras, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kashmir, Morocco, Indonesia and Colombia, specializing in rapid response deployment and assessment with the aim of paving the way for the relief efforts of military and civil humanitarian groups.
[7] Ten days after the devastating tsunami that ensued due to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, Templeton helped insert 27 medical personnel in Aceh Jaya (Indonesia) to conduct emergency assessment in the most inaccessible regions and coordinate delivery of supplies[8][9] in collaboration with ELISA (Equipe Légere d'Intervention de Secours Aéroportée)[10] and PFC (Paramedics for Children), with the support of Newmont Mining Corporation CEO Richard Ness.
Templeton flew 24 surveillance and GPS mapping missions in order to provide geo-referenced intelligence to the UNJLC, thereby convincing them to use the Calang Camp as the relief distribution hub where the team then coordinated landing zones for USMC LCAT vessels delivering 30,000+ tons of supplies.