RADM Nicholas Wheeler

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Director
NATO Digital Staff

Born on the Channel Island of Jersey. 
Trained as a Warfare Officer, he specialised as a Submariner in 1996. Serving predominantly in nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs), he also completed a number of strategic patrols in ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), gaining a wide range of operational experience at sea and ashore. He completed a tour as a J5 planner in a Joint Operational HQ in Basra, Iraq in 2007, before completing staff training at the UK Joint Command and Staff College. He took command of HMS TORBAY and HMS TURBULENT.
Staff roles followed in Portsmouth at Navy Command. On being promoted to Captain in 2016, he took up the post of Deputy Commander of the NATO Submarine Command and Assistant Chief of Staff SM to MARCOM, delivered a series of important NATO exercises, expanding the Alliance’s Anti-submarine warfare capability in the face of growing Russian submarine activity in NATO’s Area of Responsibility (AOR), then completed an assignment at the UK Strategic Command, where he was responsible for the setting of policy and the delivery of new capability for the joint aspects of the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) element. He was promoted to Commodore in 2019. 
On promotion to Rear Admiral, in July 2022, he became the Director of the NATO HQ Consultation, Command and Control Staff, renamed to NATO Digital Staff in August 2023.