Robert Pedre

Rear Admiral Robert George Pedre (born 8 February 1975) is a senior Royal Navy officer and current Commander United Kingdom Strike Force.

Naval career
Educated at Davenant Foundation School, Imperial College London (BSc physics, 1996) and King's College London (MA Defence Studies, 2016), Pedre entered Britannia Royal Naval College on 18 September 1996. He became commanding officer of the Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel HMS Cottesmore (M32), deployed on counter-terrorist operations in the Irish Sea, in 2003.

As executive officer on the Type 22 frigate HMS Cumberland (F85), Pedre was involved in the evacuation of personnel from Benghazi, Libya in 2009. He went on to command the Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond (F239) in 2012, and the landing platform helicopter HMS Ocean (L12) in 2016. Ocean served as flagship for Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 and took part in Operation RUMAN (humanitarian support to the British Overseas Territories), before being decommissioned in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II on 27 March 2018.

Pedre went on to be Assistant Head Defence Strategy at the Ministry of Defence later in 2018, Commander Littoral Strike Group in May 2020, and, with promotion to rear admiral, Commander United Kingdom Strike Force in September 2022.