Rear Admiral John Lang
Independent Governor

John Lang was elected to the Board of Governors in March 2004. He chairs the Audit and Governance Committee and sits on the Nominations Committee. 

John is a professional mariner who first went to sea in 1959 as a navigating officer apprentice with P&O. He later transferred to the Royal Navy where, in a career spanning 33 years, he commanded two submarines and a frigate. His last appointment before retiring as a Rear Admiral in 1995 was Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence. On leaving the Navy he was appointed the UK's Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents. 

John is a Fellow of both the Nautical Institute and Royal Institute of Navigation and maintains numerous links with the wider maritime community. He is President of the Association of Sea Training Organisations, on the Council of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and a Younger Brother of Trinity House. In June 2008 John became a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire.