He spent 4 years as the Canadian Government’s Independent Advisor on its National Shipbuilding Strategy routinely attending the monthly Deputy Ministers’ Governance Committee. Since 2014 he has been an independent advisor on complex portfolios and programmes from Australian shipbuilding to the Met Police’s information infrastructure transformation project. His final role was as the MOD’s lead on all warship shipbuilding as Director Ship Acquisition, responsible for the warship building portfolio including building HMS Queen Elizabeth and the Type 26 Global Combat Ship programme. He held acquisition roles in every rank from Lieutenant to Rear Admiral across Submarine systems, Information Infrastructure and Crypto systems. Steve trained as a nuclear submarine weapons engineer, leaving the Royal Navy in 2014 after a 36-year career. He lives at Warsash with his wife, Tracey, and enjoys watching all sport, working on his family history and fighting the eternal battle against weeds in the garden. He also recently chaired the Appeal to build the new submariners’ Memorial at the National Arboretum. He was National President of the Royal British Legion from 2012-2016. Since retiring, he has been Chairman of the Seafarers Charity and the Forces Pension Society. He then undertook a range of staff appointments in London and Portsmouth, including Defence Services Secretary and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Personnel). He then commanded HM Submarines Otter, Superb and Vanguard before completing his operational career as Captain of the Second Submarine Squadron. He served in both diesel and nuclear submarines ( Opportune, Onslaught, Resolution and Churchill) before being selected to attend the Commanding Officers’ Qualifying Course. Peter Wilkinson joined the Royal Navy in 1975 and chose submarines as soon as he could.
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