{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Vice Admiral | name = Sir Ian Corder | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|CB}} | image = Rear Admiral Ian Corder (cropped).jpg | caption = Corder in 2013 | office = Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey | premier = Jonathan Le Tocq<br/>Gavin St Pier<br/>Peter Ferbrache | term_start = 14 March 2016 | term_end = November 2021 | predecessor = Peter Walker | successor = Richard Cripwell | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|08|06|df=yes}} | birth_place = Nuneaton, England | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | alma_mater = Peterhouse, Cambridge | nickname = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = Royal Navy | service_years = 1978–2016 | rank = Vice Admiral | commands = {{HMS|Cumberland|F85|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Splendid|S106|6}}<br/>{{HMS|Oracle|S16|6}} | unit = | battles = Operation Ellamy | mawards = Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br/>Companion of the Order of the Bath | laterwork = }} Vice Admiral '''Sir Ian Fergus Corder''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|KBE|CB}} (born 6 August 1960) is a retired senior Royal Navy officer who served as UK Military Representative to NATO, and was the Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey from 2016 to 2021.
==Naval career== thumb|left|Aboard the USS ''George H.W. Bush'' Educated at Rugby School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, Corder joined the Royal Navy in 1978.<ref name=bio>[http://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/1506686/vadm_ian_corder_uk_milrep_bio.pdf EU Biography]{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> He commanded the submarine {{HMS|Oracle|S16|6}}, then the submarine {{HMS|Splendid|S106|6}} and finally the frigate {{HMS|Cumberland|F85|6}}.<ref name=bio/> 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.<ref name=bio/> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/libya-update--2|title=Libya update|publisher=UK Government|access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref> He attended the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in April 2011.<ref>{{cite news |title=Royal wedding guest list |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13175842 |access-date=28 July 2020 |publisher=BBC |date=23 April 2011}}</ref> He went on to be UK Military Representative to NATO in May 2013.<ref>[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Ministry%20of%20Defence%20Senior%20Posts.pdf Senior Tri-Service and Ministry of Defence Appointments] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117033054/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Ministry%20of%20Defence%20Senior%20Posts.pdf |date=17 November 2015 }}</ref>
Corder retired from the Royal Navy on 1 July 2016.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61677|supp=y|page=17572|date=16 August 2016}}</ref>
He was elected an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder |url=https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/people/vice-admiral-sir-ian-corder |website=Peterhouse |access-date=28 July 2020 |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728212458/https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/people/vice-admiral-sir-ian-corder |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey== thumb|left|Ian Corder (middle) attending the Queen's birthday parade 2016 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey In March 2016 Corder was announced as the next Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, to assume the post by May.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://guernseypress.com/news/2016/02/16/new-lt-governor-is-a-career-navy-man/ |title=New Lt-Governor is a career Navy man |publisher=Guernsey Press |date=16 February 2016}}</ref>
He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61608|supp=y|page=B5|date=11 June 2016}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Mark Anderson}} {{s-ttl|title=Commander Operations|years=2011–2013}} {{s-aft|after=Matt Parr}} |- {{s-bef | before = Sir Christopher Harper}} {{s-ttl | title = UK Military Representative to NATO | years = 2013–2016}} {{s-aft | after =Sir George Norton}} |- {{s-gov}} {{s-bef|before=Peter Walker}} {{s-ttl|title=Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey|years=2016–2021}} {{s-aft | after =Richard Cripwell}} {{s-end}}
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