Robert Pedre

Vice Admiral Robert George Pedre (born 8 February 1975) is a senior Royal Navy officer and current Commander, Allied Maritime Command.

Education He was born 8 February 1975 in Taunton, Somerset. Pedre was educated at Davenant Foundation School, Imperial College London

Naval career Pedre entered Britannia Royal Naval College on 18 September 1996. He saw initial service in several destroyers operating in the South Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Pedre then served as Operations Officer on and organised NATO’s first counter-piracy deployment to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in 2007. and the landing platform helicopter 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.

Rear-admiral In 2022 he was promoted to rear admiral and appointed as Commander United Kingdom Strike Force in September 2022. In August 2024, with his staff, he participated in a joint United States Fleet Synthetic training period. This was the first time the Royal Navy’s Commander Strike Force had participated in the certification that all US Navy Strike Groups complete. Promoted to vice admiral, he became Commander, Allied Maritime Command, in January 2026.

Pedre was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2025 Birthday Honours.