FinestGov currently provides services across 37 countries and our International Advisory Board is made up of a number of Global Industry and Thought Leaders, and International Government and Military Experts. FinestGov welcomes our newest International board member Vice Admiral (UK Royal Navy) Duncan Laurence Potts to our International Advisory Board.
International Board Members
Vice Admiral Duncan Laurence Potts
Former Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Capability), Controller of the Navy (UK) and Director General of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
Vice Admiral Duncan Laurence Potts, CB, served as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Capability) and Controller of the Navy(UK) from 2013 to 2014, and as Director General of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. From commanding officer of the destroyer HMS Southampton and a member of the policy and programmes cell at the Permanent Joint Headquarters to becoming Commander Sea Training to the Flag Officer Sea Training and being appointed commanding officer of the frigate HMS Marlborough, as well as captain of the 4th Frigate Squadron and being deployed to the Middle East, Potts went on to be Captain Navy Plans and then military assistant to the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence(UK). He was appointed commander of the UK Task Group in 2007 (in which role he was deployed to the Gulf) and Assistant Chief of Staff (Crisis and Deliberate Planning) at Permanent Joint Headquarters in 2009. He became Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces in January 2011 (deployed as commander of EU maritime operations off Somalia from August 2011) and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Capability) and Controller of the Navy in April 2013. Potts was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2014 Birthday Honours, and made director general of Joint Force Development and director general of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, with the rank of vice admiral that same year.
