Rear Adm Nicholas Wilkinson, CB

Career: with RN; served HM Ships: Venus, Vidal, Hardy, Hermes, Fife, Endurance, London 1960-78; 1964-82: RN Air Station Arbroath, RNC Greenwich (Lieutenants' Course Prize) 1967, Office of Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Army Staff Course (Mitchell Essay Prize) 1973, Clyde Submarine Base, sec to ACNS (Policy), Trg Cdr HMS Pembroke; NATO Def Coll Rome 1982-83, mil asst to Dir Int Mil Staff NATO HQ 1983-85, RCDS 1986, dir Def Logistics MOD 1986-89, sec to First Sea Lord 1989-90, sr mil memb Prospect Team MOD 1991-92, DG Naval Manpower and Trg 1992-94, Chief Naval Supply and Secretariat Offr 1993-97, Commandant JSDC 1994-97; mgmnt conslt 1998-99; sec Defence Press and Broadcasting Advsy Ctee 1999-2004; chm Assoc of Royal Naval Officers 1999-2004; dir Southside Quarter Mgmnt Co 1998-2003; chm: Cncl Victory Services Assoc 2001-08, Cncl Forces Pension Soc 1998-2005; govr Princess Helena Coll 1995-2004, pres Swindon RNA 1999-, pres Swindon Sea Cadets 1999-, memb Devpt Cncl Trinity Coll of Music 2002-, tstee Greenwich Fndn 2003-10, chm Advsy Ctee Grennwich Univ Maritime Inst 2003-; cmmr PCC 2005-08

Books and Publications: Secrecy and the Media (2009), Spinning Intelligence (contrib, 2009), Government Secrecy (contrib, 2011); articles in Naval Review 1985-, Press Gazette 2000-04