Nicky Moffat

Brigadier Nicola Patricia Moffat, (born 1962 ) was the highest-ranking woman in the British Army from 2009 until her resignation in 2012. She is now a leadership consultant and speaker.

Life Moffat graduated in 1985 with a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Liverpool, though has said that she "almost got booted out" for neglecting her studies in favour of the Officers' Training Corps' activities. and appears as a speaker on awards panels.

In 2018, Moffat appeared as a primary instructor in the BBC living history series Secret Agent Selection: WW2, later released on Netflix as Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits. Alongside Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Weale and military psychologist Mike Rennie, Moffat was tasked with reviving and recreating the training process of the Special Operations Executive and determining whether fourteen candidates had what it took to survive as a secret agent in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Recognition Moffat was appointed CBE in the 2012 New Year Honours, cited as "Late Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch)".

She was selected as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2014, cited as "Highest Ranked woman in British Armed Forces".