Years of service 1978 - Battles/wars Operation Ellamy Rank Vice admiral | Name Ian Corder Service/branch Royal Navy Awards Order of the Bath Allegiance United Kingdom | |
Commands held HMS Oracle
HMS Splendid
HMS Cumberland | ||
Battles and wars Operation Ellamy | ||
Vice Admiral Sir Ian Fergus Corder (born 6 August 1960) is a senior Royal Navy officer who served as UK Military Representative to NATO. In 2016, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.
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Naval career
Educated at Rugby School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, Corder joined the Royal Navy in 1978. He commanded the submarine HMS Oracle, then the submarine HMS Splendid and finally the frigate HMS Cumberland. He went on to become Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord, Deputy Director of the unit at the Ministry of Defence responsible for policy regarding NATO, the European Union and the United Nations and then Chief of the Strategic Systems Executive. After that he became Director of Naval Personnel Strategy and then Deputy Commander Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO before becoming Commander Operations and Rear Admiral, Submarines in March 2011 and in that capacity he was the UK's Maritime Commander for operations over Libya (Operation Ellamy) in Spring 2011. He attended the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in April 2011. He went on to be UK Military Representative to NATO in May 2013.
Corder retired from the Royal Navy on 1 July 2016.
Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
In March 2016 Corder was announced as the next Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, to assume the post by May.
He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours.