Vice Admiral Sir David Steel KBE, DL has been appointed Governor of Gibraltar in succession to Lieutenant General Edward Davis CB CBE.
2014 – Present
Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire; (from 2015) Chief Executive Officer, Leeds Castle Foundation and Enterprises Ltd; President, Union Jack Club London
2012 – 2015
Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel, Training and Infrastructure (Vice Admiral)
2010 – 2012
Naval Secretary and Director of Personnel and Career Management
2009 – 2010
Ministry of Defence, Director, Armed Forces Pay and Manning
2005 – 2008
Chief Executive and Naval Base Commander Portsmouth. Sea Area Commander English Channel
2002 – 2005
Executive Assistant to the First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff
1998 – 2002
Royal Navy, Director of Logistics
1994 – 1998
Royal Navy, Director, Legal and Personnel Services
1979 – 1994
Variety of appointments at Sea including Aircraft carrier Logistics Commander
