Iain Lower
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Iain Lower

Royal Navy Rear Admiral

Rear Admiral Iain Stuart Lower, is a senior Royal Navy officer. He was Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Policy) 2020-2022.2

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About

He is the current Deputy Master of Trinity House.

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Companies

Career

Royal Navy career

Lower joined the Royal Navy on 1 May 1992. He became commanding officer of the destroyer HMS Gloucester in 2009 and, in that capacity, was deployed to the South Atlantic. He went on to become commanding officer of the destroyer HMS Dragon in 2013, Head of Military Plans for Africa and the Americas in 2014, and the Chief of the Defence Staff's personal Liaison Officer to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C. in 2016. After that he became Director for Strategy, International Relations, Maritime Sector, Parliamentary & Academic Engagement in September 2017, and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Policy) from November 2020 until November 2022, when he retired from active royal navy service.

Other work

Lower has been a Trustee of The Seafarers' Charity since 2021.

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Personal life

After leaving Royal Navy service, he worked at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, as the Director of Strategy, Communications & Commonwealth Affairs.

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Awards

  • 2022Companion of the Order of the Bath4

Sources

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