{{Short description|British Army officer (born 1963)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Lieutenant General | name = Richard Nugee | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB|CVO|CBE}} | image = Nugee and Kibben (cropped).jpg | caption = Nugee in 2017 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1963|06|03}} | death_date = | birth_place = Hampstead, London, England | death_place = | burial_place = | nickname = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = British Army | service_years = 1985–2021 | service_number = 515778 | rank = Lieutenant General | unit = Royal Artillery | commands = 40th Regiment Royal Artillery | battles = Iraq War<br/>War in Afghanistan | awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath<br/>Commander of the Royal Victorian Order<br/>Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br/>Legion of Merit (United States) | relations = Edward Nugee (father)<br />Sir Christopher Nugee (brother)<br />Emily Thornberry (sister-in-law) | other_work = }} Lieutenant General '''Richard Edward Nugee''', CB, CVO, CBE (born 3 June 1963) is a retired senior British Army officer. He served in several senior roles including Defence Services Secretary (2015–2016) and Chief of Defence People (2016–2020), before ending his career leading a review into climate change policy in the Ministry of Defence between March 2020 and May 2021.
==Early life and education== Nugee was born on 3 June 1963 in Hampstead, England.<ref name="WW 2020">{{cite web |title=Nugee, Lt Gen. Richard Edward |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-255899 |website=Who's Who 2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=8 July 2020 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U255899 |date=1 December 2019|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}</ref> He is the son of Edward Nugee, a notable barrister,<ref>{{cite web |title=Nugee, Edward George |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-29763 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=8 July 2020 |date=1 December 2016|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U29763 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}</ref> and his wife Rachel, a Bletchley codebreaker and active lay Anglican.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nugee, Rachel Elizabeth |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-29764 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=8 July 2020 |language=en |date=1 December 2016|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U29764 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fletcher |first1=Melanie |title=Obituary: Rachel Elizabeth Nugee |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2015/6-november/gazette/obituaries/obituary-rachel-elizabeth-nugee |access-date=8 July 2020 |work=The Church Times |date=6 November 2015}}</ref> He was educated at Radley College, an all-boys public school near Radley, Oxfordshire.<ref>'NUGEE, Lt Gen. Richard Edward', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U255899 Retrieved 5 June 2017]</ref> He studied anthropology at Durham University, where he was a member of Grey College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1985.<ref name="WW 2020" /> He later studied military affairs at King's College London, and completed a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1995.<ref name="WW 2020" />
==Military career== thumb|left|Nugee in 2020 Nugee was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1985.<ref name=speakers>{{cite web|url=http://www.speakers4schools.org/speakers/major-general-richard-nugee|title=Major General Richard Nugee|publisher=Speakers for Schools|access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> He became commanding officer of 40th Regiment Royal Artillery in 2003 and was deployed to Iraq in that role.<ref name=speakers/> Promoted to brigadier, he was deployed with Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps to Afghanistan in 2006.<ref name=speakers/>
He went on to be Director of Manning (Army) in March 2009, Director General of Army Personnel in June 2012 and Chief of Staff (Operations) in October 2013: in the latter role he was deployed as Chief of Staff, Combined Force Command, Afghanistan in November 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |title=Army Commands |access-date=22 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |archive-date=5 July 2015 }}</ref> He was appointed Defence Services Secretary and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Personnel) in March 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/army-appointment-jtx3dn53zrm|title=Army appointment|work=The Times|access-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> Nugee was awarded the US Legion of Merit in the Degree of Officer on 18 March 2016 for services in Afghanistan.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61529|supp=y|page=6084|date=18 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=General Orders No. 2018–33 |url=https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN12630_GO1833_FINAL.pdf |publisher=Headquarters Department of the Army |access-date=13 December 2020 |location=Washington, DC |date=29 November 2018}}</ref>
Nugee was promoted to lieutenant general on 29 April 2016.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61636|supp=y|page=14541|date=4 July 2016}}</ref> On 12 May 2016, it was announced that Nugee would become the next Chief of Defence People.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-general-richard-nugee-appointed-new-chief-of-defence-people|title=Major General Richard Nugee appointed new Chief of Defence People|access-date=13 May 2016}}</ref> Nugee handed over to then Major-General James Swift in February 2020.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Major General James Swift appointed as Chief of Defence People |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-general-james-swift-appointed-as-chief-of-defence-people |work=UK Ministry of Defence |location=London, United Kingdom |date=30 January 2020 |access-date=31 January 2020 }}</ref> Since March 2020, he has led a review into climate change policy and sustainability in the Ministry of Defence.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lt Gen Richard Nugee to lead MOD's climate change policy |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lt-gen-richard-nugee-to-lead-mods-climate-change-policy |website=GOV.UK |publisher=Ministry of Defence |access-date=8 July 2020 |language=en |date=6 March 2020}}</ref> Nugee retired from the army on 12 May 2021.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63351|supp=y|page=8881|date=18 May 2021}}</ref>
He was a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Regiment of Artillery from 8 June 2012 until 21 April 2023.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=64077 |date=13 June 2023 |page=11607 |supp= y}}</ref>
Nugee was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60009|supp=y|page=5|date=31 December 2011}}</ref> a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2016 Special Honours,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61743|page=22692|date=25 October 2016}}</ref> and a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2020 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=62866|supp=y|page=N2|date=28 December 2019}}</ref>
Nugee is the current Chief Executive of The Scar Free Foundation, a medical research charity.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://scarfree.org.uk/news/2023/the-burns-can-cook-them-reflections-on-climate-and-burns-by-our-ceo |title='The burns can cook them:' Reflections on burns injuries and the climate crisis |publisher=The Scar Free Foundation|access-date=30 April 2024}}</ref> He is also Chairman of Uplift360, a clean tech startup producing advanced materials from composite waste, achieved through the development of their novel chemical technology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uplift360.tech/about-us|title=About Us | Uplift360|website=Uplift360 V2}}</ref>
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