David Walker (RAF administrative officer)

David Allan Walker
Born	14 July 1956 (age 60)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Air Force
Years of service	1974–2011
Rank	Air Marshal
Commands held	RAF Halton RAF Training Group
Awards	Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Other work	Extra Equerry to The Queen Vice-Patron of the Royal International Air Tattoo President, London Wing, Air Training Corps Vice-President, RAF Club Honorary Air Commodore 603 (City of Edinburgh) Sqn RAuxAF Hon. President, Montrose Air Heritage Centre Trustee, Savoy Educational Trust Patron, The Poppy Ball Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.

Air Marshal Sir David Allan Walker, KCVO, OBE, DL (born 14 July 1956) is a Director at Alexander Mann Solutions, and a Senior Advisor at PwC. He is a former senior RAF officer and Master of the Household to the Sovereign.

Career

Walker was commissioned in the Administrative Branch of the Royal Air Force on 1 September 1974.^[1] He was regraded to pilot officer on 15 July 1977 (seniority 15 October 1975),^[2] promoted to flying officer on 15 January 1978 (seniority 15 April 1976)^[3] and promoted to flight lieutenant on 15 October 1980.^[4]

Walker became Station commander at RAF Halton in 1997, Director of Corporate Communications for the RAF in 1998 and Director of Personnel and Training Policy in 2002.^[5] He went on to be Air Officer Commanding the RAF Training Group in 2003 before being seconded to Buckingham Palace in 2005 as Master of the Household to the Sovereign.^[5] On retiring from the Royal Household in 2013 he joined HSBC as Senior Advisor to the Group Executive Chairman, and then moved to a similar role in Barclays Bank, from 2014 to 2015, advising the Group CEO. In 2015 he joined the Board of Alexander Mann Solutions, and became a Senior Advisor at PwC.

Awards and titles

Walker was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1992, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1995,^[5] and a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2011 Birthday Honours, being invested in a personal audience with The Queen on 13 July 2011.^[6][7][8]

References

1. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46432. p. 12879. 16 December 1974.
2. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47311. p. 11142. 26 August 1977.
3. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47437. p. 609. 16 January 1978.
4. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 48366. p. 15626. 10 November 1980.
5. "Air Vice-Marshal David Walker, OBE, MVO". Debrett's. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
6. The Court Circular, 13 July 2011
7. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59808. p. 3. 11 June 2011.
8. "HM The Queen's Birthday Honours List - 2011". London: Daily Telegraph. 11 June 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2011.