# Alan Gillespie

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{{Short description|British Royal Air Force officer}}

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|name= Alan Gillespie
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|caption= Air Marshal Gillespie in 2019
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|allegiance= United Kingdom
|branch= [Royal Air Force](/source/Royal_Air_Force)
|service_years= 1988–
|rank= [Air Marshal](/source/Air_Marshal)
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|commands= [No. 23 Squadron](/source/No._23_Squadron_RAF)<br />[No. 903 Expeditionary Air Wing](/source/No._903_Expeditionary_Air_Wing)<br />[RAF Waddington](/source/RAF_Waddington)<br />[No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group](/source/No._83_Expeditionary_Air_Group)<br />[No. 2 Group](/source/No._2_Group_RAF)<br />[Military Aviation Authority](/source/Military_Aviation_Authority)<br /> [Defence Safety Authority](/source/Defence_Safety_Authority)
|battles= [Iraq War](/source/Iraq_War)<br />[War in Afghanistan](/source/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present))
|awards= [Commander of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire)
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[Air Marshal](/source/Air_Marshal) '''Alan Kenneth Gillespie''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|CBE}} is a senior [Royal Air Force](/source/Royal_Air_Force) officer. He currently serves as the Director General of the [Defence Safety Authority](/source/Defence_Safety_Authority).

==RAF career==
Gillespie was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1988.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.euro-defence.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Gillespie_B4_2019.pdf|title=Air Vice Marshal Alan Gillespie|publisher=Berlin Security Conference|accessdate=12 December 2019|archive-date=12 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212144706/https://www.euro-defence.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Gillespie_B4_2019.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He became commanding officer of [No. 23 Squadron](/source/No._23_Squadron_RAF) in 2008, commander [No. 903 Expeditionary Air Wing](/source/No._903_Expeditionary_Air_Wing) at [Camp Bastion](/source/Camp_Bastion) in [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan) in 2009 and station commander [RAF Waddington](/source/RAF_Waddington) in 2011.<ref name=bio/> 

Gillespie went on to become UK Air Component Commander at [Al Udeid Air Base](/source/Al_Udeid_Air_Base) in [Qatar](/source/Qatar) and Air Officer Commanding [No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group](/source/No._83_Expeditionary_Air_Group) in 2013, the Battlespace Management Force Commander in 2015 and Head of the Air Transformation Programme in 2017.<ref name=bio/> He was appointed Air Officer Commanding [No. 2 Group](/source/No._2_Group_RAF) in September 2019, and subsequently as Director of the [Military Aviation Authority](/source/Military_Aviation_Authority) in December 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/senior-appointments/|title=Senior Appointments|publisher=Royal Air Force|accessdate=12 December 2019}}</ref> 

He succeeded [Steve Shell](/source/Steve_Shell) as Director General of the [Defence Safety Authority](/source/Defence_Safety_Authority) and was promoted to [air marshal](/source/air_marshal) in November 2024.<ref>{{cite web |title=Senior Appointments 2024 |url=https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/senior-appointments/ |website=raf.mod.uk |publisher=Royal Air Force |access-date=31 October 2024 |date=31 October 2024}}</ref>

He was appointed a [Commander of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) in the [2018 New Year Honours](/source/2018_New_Year_Honours).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=62150|supp=y|page=N7|date=30 December 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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{{s-aft|after=[Suraya Marshall](/source/Suraya_Marshall)}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Director-General [Defence Safety Authority](/source/Defence_Safety_Authority)|years=2024–present}}
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Category:Royal Air Force air marshals
Category:Royal Air Force personnel of the Iraq War
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Royal Air Force personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

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