Alan Gillespie
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Air Marshal Alan Kenneth Gillespie {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|CBE}} is a senior Royal Air Force officer. He currently serves as the Director General of the Defence Safety Authority.
RAF career
Gillespie was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1988.{{cite web|url=https://www.euro-defence.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Gillespie_B4_2019.pdf|title=Air Vice Marshal Alan Gillespie|publisher=Berlin Security Conference|accessdate=12 December 2019}} He became commanding officer of No. 23 Squadron in 2008, commander No. 903 Expeditionary Air Wing at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan in 2009 and station commander RAF Waddington in 2011.
Gillespie went on to become UK Air Component Commander at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and Air Officer Commanding No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group in 2013, the Battlespace Management Force Commander in 2015 and Head of the Air Transformation Programme in 2017. He was appointed Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group in September 2019, and subsequently as Director of the Military Aviation Authority in December 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/senior-appointments/|title=Senior Appointments|publisher=Royal Air Force|accessdate=12 December 2019}}
He succeeded Steve Shell as Director General of the Defence Safety Authority and was promoted to air marshal in November 2024.{{cite web |title=Senior Appointments 2024 |url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/senior-appointments/ |website=raf.mod.uk |publisher=Royal Air Force |access-date=31 October 2024 |date=31 October 2024}}
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=62150|supp=y|page=N7|date=30 December 2017}}
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Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Royal Air Force air marshals