Lieutenant General Sir Robert Andrew Magowan, KCB, CBE (born 12 September 1967) is a senior Royal Marines officer who serves as the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Financial and Military Capability) since May 2022.

[2] He became Plans Officer at Headquarters 3rd Mechanised Division in 2001, in which role he was deployed to Afghanistan, and then became second-in-command of 42 Commando with which he took part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

[1] He joined the Cabinet Office Assessment Staff in 2003, was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2005 New Year Honours,[3] and posted to the Afghan Drugs Inter-departmental Unit in 2005, before becoming commanding officer of 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group in 2006.

[4] Magowan became a Deputy Head in Defence Intelligence in 2009 and Chief of Staff to the National Contingent Commander at the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul in 2012,[1][5] for which he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the October 2013 Operational Honours.

[7][8][9] Magowan was awarded the United States Commander of the Legion of Merit by General Robert Neller on 10 October 2017.