Peter Derek Watkins, CB, CBE (born 8 February 1959) is a civil servant who served as Director General of the Defence Academy from 2011 to 2014.
Educated at Strode's College in Egham and Peterhouse, Cambridge, Watkins joined the Ministry of Defence in 1980.
[3] On 8 January 2010 Watkins told the Iraq Inquiry of the complexities of the British withdrawal from Basra in 2009, saying "we should have applied the Balkans principle of in together out together".
[4] Watkins was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2019 New Year Honours.
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