Allegiance United Kingdom Rank Air marshal Service/branch Royal Air Force | Name David Walker Years of service 1974-2011 | |
Commands held RAF Halton
RAF Training Group Other work Senior Advisor at HSBC Holdings
Master of the Household
Extra Equerry to The Queen
Vice-Patron of the Royal International Air Tattoo
President of the London Wing of the Air Training Corps
Vice-President of the RAF Club
Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Awards Royal Victorian Order, Order of the British Empire | ||
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.
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Career
Walker was commissioned in the Administrative Branch of the Royal Air Force on 1 September 1974. He was regraded to pilot officer on 15 July 1977 (seniority 15 October 1975), promoted to flying officer on 15 January 1978 (seniority 15 April 1976) and promoted to flight lieutenant on 15 October 1980.
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. 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. 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, 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.