Air Vice Marshal Peter Dodworth, CB, OBE, AFC (born 12 September 1940) is a former Royal Air Force officer who served as Head of the British Defence Staff in Washington, D.C. from 1991 to 1994.
Educated at King George V Grammar School and the University of Leeds, Dodworth joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1963.
[1] As a junior officer he was one of the first pilots to be trained on the Harrier.
[2] He became officer commanding operations at RAF Wittering in 1976, Air Commander in Belize in 1980 and a member of the directing staff at the RAF Staff College, Bracknell, in 1982.
[1] He went on to be Station Commander at RAF Wittering in 1983, a staff officer at Headquarters Allied Air Forces Central Europe in 1985 and Director of Personnel at the Ministry of Defence in 1988.