Rear admiral neil morissette biography

Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti (Class of 1975) served in the Royal Navy for 37 years and was Commander of the UK Maritime Force, as well as NATO High Readiness Force Maritime Commander.

Rear admiral neil morissette biography

In 2013 he served as the Foreign Secretary’s interim Special Representative for Climate Change and he continues to work in both climate and defence policy, as a Professor and Vice Dean at University College, London and for policy think-tanks including Chatham House.

Neil took over as President of the John Carpenter Club in June 2022.

When did you decide that you wanted a life in the forces?

I had passed through the train-driver stage but wasn’t really sure where I had got to.

Then, a colleague ahead of me at CLS called Mark Sloan joined the Navy as a University Cadet and we had a chat. It sounded like a good idea. It allowed you to go up to university and do all the things I wanted to do in terms of travel, leadership and to be involved in the issues of the day: this was at t