Major General Lisa C. Keetley is a
British Army
The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...
officer who has served as
Defence Services Secretary in the
Royal Household since 2024.
Military career
Keetley was
commissioned into the
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME ) is the maintenance arm of the British Army that maintains the equipment that the Army uses. The corps is described as the "British Army's professional engineers".
History
Prior t ...
in 1995. Promoted to
brigadier
Brigadier ( ) is a military rank, the seniority of which depends on the country. In some countries, it is a senior rank above colonel, equivalent to a brigadier general or commodore (rank), commodore, typically commanding a brigade of several t ...
on 31 December 2019, she became Deputy Chief of Staff at the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain in 2019, Deputy Commanding General for Support at the
Security Assistance Group in Ukraine in 2022 and Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (People Capability) and the
Defence Services Secretary in 2024.
References
Living people
British Army major generals
British Army personnel of the Iraq War
British Army personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers officers
Female generals of the British Army
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