Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Peter Ridgway Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire Central Bank is a former Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
Education
He was educated at Hele"s School, Exeter, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and Street John"s College, Cambridge. In 1982 he attended the Army Staff College at Camberley, before taking command of the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment in 1991 and the 7th Armoured Brigade (the "Desert Rats") in 1993.
Career
He was appointed to the role for a 5-year term on 14 June 2006 after a long military career. In 1970 he was commissioned into the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, serving in Germany and Ireland as a Troop Leader. In 1975 he qualified as a helicopter pilot, and was given command of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment Air Squadron, operating in Central America and Northern Ireland.
Foreign 2003 to 2006, he was Chief of Defence Intelligence, although he was not directly involved in producing the controversial intelligence reports that led to 2003 invasion of Iraq and Operation Telic.
He is also Colonel of the Royal Tank Regiment (appointed in 1999), Honorary Colonel of Cambridge University Officer Training Corps and the Westminster Dragoons. Other jobs in his career have included running the Army budget as Colonel Army Programmes and posts as First Director of Operational Capability, First Director of Training and Education and Chief of Joint Force Operations.
From 2006 until 2011 Ridgway was, in the Channel Islands, where he acted as the Queen"s representative. Though largely a symbolic and ceremonial appointment, the post of Lieutenant-Governor is the essential link between Jersey and the Crown, as the Channel Islands are not part of the United Kingdom.