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The Maritime Authority has great pleasure in welcoming Chris Moorey OBE, as our new Head of Maritime.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Moorey joined the Royal Navy in 1981 and spent the next couple of decades serving in a variety of Fishery Protection Vessels, Frigates and Destroyers \u2013 being lucky enough to see much of the globe whilst doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After assignments in the Ministry of Defence and the Maritime Warfare School, in 2006 he joined HQ British Forces South Atlantic Islands as the Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence and Current Operations. This professionally rewarding period also allowed the family to enjoy life in the Falklands and to visit other South Atlantic islands and South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to the UK in 2008, he worked in Navy Command Headquarters before escaping to the Indian Ocean to take up the roles of British Representative and Commander British Forces in the British Indian Ocean Territory, between early 2010 and early 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further overseas tours then followed, first as the Defence Attach\u00e9 at the British Embassy in Manama, Bahrain, between 2011 and 2014, followed by a further 3-year assignment as the head of the Current Operations Maritime Section within \u201cNaval Striking and Support Forces NATO\u201d, based in Lisbon, Portugal. Highlights of this assignment included periods embarked in US, French and Royal Danish Navy flagships in the Baltic and North Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His final assignment in the Royal Navy before leaving the service in late 2021 was as the Naval and Air Attach\u00e9, Ankara, Turkey. He was appointed OBE in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours List 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris’s arrival to the Maritime Authority brings our team to its full strength and we very much look forward to working with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome onboard Chris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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