Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton was appointed on 2 May 2005 and resigned as full-time Private Secretary with effect from September 2013, remaining for a single day a week in order to mentor and advise the younger staff who shall have to succeed him.
12 Facts About Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton served with the Irish Guards and the Special Air Service, including in the first Gulf War, and in Colombia and the Balkans.
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton trained at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1979, and joined the Irish Guards.
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton served with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, but was attached to the Special Air Service throughout his 20-year army career, where he was described as an especially capable officer.
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton was a troop commander of the SAS as a Captain.
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton was promoted to the rank of Major on 30 September 1992, and was in charge of two 20-man SAS counter-narcotics operations in Colombia for two years in the early 1990s.
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton attended the Staff College, Camberley, and qualified as a staff officer.
In 2001, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton co-founded, and has since been a director of, Objective Travel Safety, which provides risk assessment training for young travellers and journalists.
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton trained Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman for their Long Way Round and Long Way Down TV series.
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton is a part-time consultant to Kroll Risk Management, London.
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton was appointed Member of the Royal Victorian Order for his service as Equerry to The Queen Mother in 1986, Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1990 for service with the special forces in Colombia, and Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2013 New Year Honours.
Until 2021, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton served as a trustee for the veteran support and archaeology charity Waterloo Uncovered, which conducts excavations at the site of the Battle of Waterloo with veterans and serving personnel.