Philip Osborn
{{Short description|Royal Air Force officer}}
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Air Marshal Philip Colin Osborn, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|CBE|FRAeS}} is a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Chief of Defence Intelligence from 2015 to 2018.
RAF career
Osborn joined the Royal Air Force in 1982.{{cite web|url=http://www.ismor.com/32ismor_archive/keynotes/osborn/osborn_biography.pdf|title=Air Marshal P C Osborn CBE RAF|publisher=Ministry of Defence|accessdate=7 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113954/http://www.ismor.com/32ismor_archive/keynotes/osborn/osborn_biography.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}} After training as a Tornado navigator, he became commanding officer of No. 13 Squadron and then Station Commander at RAF Marham. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group in October 2010, Chief of Staff Operations and Support at RAF Air Command in 2012 and Director Capability at Joint Forces Command in 2013. He became Chief of Defence Intelligence in January 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Ministry%20of%20Defence%20Senior%20Posts.pdf|title= Ministry of Defence and Senior Tri-service Appointments|accessdate=7 November 2015}}
Osborn was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=58929|supp=y|page=6|date=31 December 2008}} He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS).{{cite web |title=Air Marshal Phil Osborn on Intelligence and Information Advantage in a Contested World |url=https://rusi.org/event/air-marshal-phil-osborn-intelligence-and-information-advantage-contested-world |website=RUSI |date=18 May 2018 |accessdate=8 June 2019 |language=en}}
Osborn officially retired from the Royal Air Force on 13 October 2019.{{London Gazette |issue= 62850 |date= 10 December 2019 |page= 22300 |supp= y }}
Later life
In retirement, Osborn maintained links with the Royal Air Force and became chairman of the RAF Charitable Trust in June 2020,{{cite web |title=Tornado Man Named as New Chairman |url=https://www.airtattoo.com/news/2020/jan/29/tornado-man-named-as-new-chairman |website=The Royal International Air Tattoo |publisher=The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Enterprises |accessdate=2 July 2020 |date=29 January 2020}}{{cite web |title=New Chairman for RAFCT |url=https://www.airtattoo.com/news/2020/jun/04/new-chairman-for-rafct |website=The Royal International Air Tattoo |publisher=The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Enterprises |accessdate=2 July 2020 |date=4 June 2020}} and became a non-executive director for Lincolnshire-based defence company, Inzpire, in April 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://www.inzpire.com/news/inzpire-appoint-phil-osborn-as-non-executive-director|title=Inzpire|website=Inzpire}}
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Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Royal Air Force air marshals
Category:Royal Air Force personnel of the Iraq War