Air Vice Marshal Ray Lock, CBE, is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as commandant of the Joint Services Command and Staff College from 2010 to 2012.
Educated at Glyn Grammar School and the University of Bristol, Lock joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1977.
[1] In 2003 he reopened the International Airport at Basra as part of Operation Telic.
[1] He went on to be deputy assistant chief of staff at Permanent Joint Headquarters at Northwood in 2004, air operations director at the Combined Air Operations Centre in Al Udeid in Qatar in 2005 and assistant chief of staff at RAF Strike Command in 2006.
[1] Lock became chief executive of the Forces in Mind Trust in December 2012.