Lieutenant-General Sir Derek Boorman KCB (born 30 September 1930) is a retired former senior British Army officer.

Educated at Wolstanton Grammar School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,[1] Boorman was commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1950.

[3] He was appointed Director of Military Operations at the Ministry of Defence in 1980[4] and Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1982.

[5] He went on to be Chief of Defence Intelligence in 1985:[6] in that capacity he took the view that the Mikhail Gorbachev's proposals for internal reform and deep cuts in missile stocks were genuine.

[13] In 1994 he became Chairman of the Royal Hospitals Trust – a post he held until 1998.