Gavin Parker

Air Vice Marshal Gavin Douglas Anthony Parker, is a senior Royal Air Force officer and the current Head of the British Defence Staff and Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C..

Military career
Parker was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 30 September 1990. He became station commander at RAF Leuchars in 2011, Assistant Chief of Staff, Plans and Policy at the Ministry of Defence in 2013 and Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group in 2015. After that he became Head of the British Defence Staff and Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. in August 2017.