Andrew Mathews

Vice Admiral Sir Andrew David Hugh Mathews KCB is a senior Royal Navy officer who is Chief of Materiél (Fleet), Royal Navy.

Naval career
Mathews served as Commander of HM Naval Base Devonport. Promoted to Rear Admiral, Mathews was appointed Director-General Nuclear and Controller of the Navy in 2006. He went on to be Director-General Submarines in 2007 and then following promotion to Vice Admiral, Mathews was appointed Chief of Materiel (Fleet) and Chief of Fleet Support in 2009, a post he shall be succeeded in by Rear Admiral Simon Lister in December 2013.

Already a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB), Mathews was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 2013 New Year Honours.