Vice Admiral D L Potts CB (Retired)
Duncan Potts joined the Royal Navy in 1979 and specialised in surface warfare as an Anti-Submarine Warfare Principal Warfare Officer. He commanded the frigate HMS BRILLIANT, the destroyer HMS SOUTHAMPTON and the 4th Frigate Squadron when he commanded HMS MARLBOROUGH. As a Commodore he was Commander UK
Task Group and commanded the coalition task group in the Northern Gulf. As a Rear Admiral he was Commander UK Maritime Forces, during which time he commanded NATO’s High Readiness Force Maritime and for 18 months the EU’s counter piracy operations in the Indian Ocean at the height of Somali Piracy. Also as a Rear Admiral he served as the Royal Navy’s Head of Capability. He has served globally, for the last 20 years predominately in the Middle East region. He also has extensive Joint experience where he has worked in MOD as Captain Navy Plans and as MA to the Vice Chief of Defence Staff, and has been head of plans as a 1* at the UK’s Permanent Joint Headquarters. As a Vice Admiral from 2014-2018 he was DG Joint Force Development for UK MOD where he worked to ensure UK forces could integrate with each other, wider allies and partners across Government, and was also Director General of the UK’s Defence Academy. Since retiring from the RN in 2018 he has become a Director of Universal Defence and Security Solutions and Chairs the Public Weather Service Customer Group. He got his first greenheart flyrod aged 8 and has been a keen fly fisherman ever since. He has been a member of PSFFA since 1987.
He is married to Pamela and has 2 children. His interests include game shooting and fishing, skiing, sailing, running, history, current affairs and reading. If you would like to contact Duncan, please e-mail him at chairman@psffa.org