Sir Julian Young retired recently from the Royal Air Force (RAF) after 40 years of service as an Engineer Officer.In his last post, he was Director-General Air within the Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) organization in the Ministry of Defence (MOD).In this role, he led some 2,265 military and civilian specialists and was responsible for putting to work some £3.7 billion annually on equipping and supporting all of the MOD’s fixed-wing aircraft.He was concurrently a member of the Air Force Board and the RAF’s Chief Engineer and he had a MOD-wide role as the Defence Engineering Champion.Throughout his long career, Julian held a variety of in-command, manpower policy, operational, engineering, training, logistics and staff appointments, including Project Team Leader for the Harrier GR7/T10 fleet and on the Support Helicopter Force (Falkland Islands, Cold War Germany and Gulf War I).Julian’s first degree was in Air Transport Engineering, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.He is also a Governor of Bath College and a Trustee of the RAF Charitable Trust.He was awarded a KBE in 2020, a CB in 2013 and an OBE in 2000.
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