Vice Admiral Duncan Laurence Potts, CB (born 10 March 1961) is a retired senior Royal Navy officer.

He served as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Capability) and Controller of the Navy from 2013 to 2014,[1] and as Director General of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom from September 2014 to 2018.

[4] He was appointed commander of the Commander United Kingdom Task Group in 2007 (in which role he was deployed to the Gulf) and Assistant Chief of Staff (Crisis and Deliberate Planning) at Permanent Joint Headquarters in 2009.

[4] He became Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces in January 2011[4] (deployed as commander of EU maritime operations off Somalia from August 2011)[5] and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Capability) and Controller of the Navy in April 2013.

[6] Potts was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2014 Birthday Honours,[7][8] and made director general of Joint Force Development and director general of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, with the rank of vice admiral, on 19 September that year.