Rear admiral simon lister biography definition

Vice AdmiralSir Simon Robert Lister, KCB, OBE (born October 1959) is a retired Royal Navy officer who is managing director of BAE Systems's naval ships business.

Naval career

Lister joined the Royal Navy in 1978.

Rear admiral simon lister biography definition

After training at the Royal Naval Engineering College at Manadon and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, he became the marine engineer officer of the submarineOdin in 1986. He went on to be marine engineer officer of Torbay and then Trenchant in 1993.

He became Naval Assistant to the Chief Executive of the Ship Support Agency in 1994 and, after attending the London Business School in 1996, he became Director, Naval Plans at the Ministry of Defence in 1997 and then naval attaché in Moscow in 2001.^[1]

Lister became head of the team responsible for phase one of the internal restructuring programme at the Defence Logistics Organisation in 2004.^[2] He went on to be Commander, HM Naval Base Devonport i