Air Secretary

The Air Secretary is the Royal Air Force appointment of which the incumbent is responsible for policy direction on personnel management for members of the RAF.^[1] From 1978 to 1983 the Air Secretary was more often referred to as Air Officer Commanding Royal Air Force Personnel Management Centre.^[2] It is a senior RAF appointment, held by an officer holding the rank of air vice-marshal. The Air Secretary's counterpart in the British Army is the Military Secretary. The Royal Navy equivalent is the Naval Secretary.

Air secretaries

The following officers have held the post:^[3]

• 4 February 1957 Air Marshal Sir Denis Barnett^[4]
• 1 May 1959 Air Chief Marshal Sir Theodore McEvoy^[5]
• 22 October 1962 Air Chief Marshal Sir William MacDonald^[6]
• 14 July 1966 Air Marshal Sir Donald Evans^[7]
• 7 December 1967 Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett^[8]
• 27 March 1970 Air Marshal Sir Gareth Clayton
• 31 March 1972 Air Marshal Sir John Barraclough^[9]
• 15 October 1973 Air Chief Marshal Sir Derek Hodgkinson^[10]
• 28 February 1976 Air Marshal Sir Neville Stack^[11]

Note: Post vacant 1978 - 1983

• 1983 Air Vice-Marshal J B Duxbury
• December 1985 Air Vice-Marshal R A Mason
• 10 February 1989 Air Vice-Marshal R J Honey^[12]
• March 1994 Air Vice Marshal R P O'Brien
• August 1998 Air Vice Marshal I M Stewart^[13]
• 2003 Air Vice-Marshal G A Miller^[14]
• July 2004 Air Vice-Marshal P W D Ruddock^[15]
• 22 May 2006 Air Vice-Marshal S Bryant^[16]
• 27 March 2009 Air Vice-Marshal M G Lloyd^[17]
• September 2011 Air Vice-Marshal M J G Wiles
• 2013-2016 Air Vice-Marshal D J Stubbs^[18][19]
• July 2016: Air Vice-Marshal C R Elliot^[20]

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