Rear Admiral Tim Woods
Biography
Rear Admiral Tim Woods was Defence Attaché at the British Embassy Washington from January 2023 to January 2026. He led the UK’s extensive military engagement and partnerships across all branches of the United States military.
Rear Admiral Woods joined the team in Washington from Kyiv, Ukraine where he was the British Defence Attaché – at the frontline of the UK’s support to the Ukrainian military. In Kyiv he also served as Head of the British Defence Staff in Eastern Europe, commanding all Defence Attaches across Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine at a defining moment in European security.
Previous roles included active duty in Afghanistan, deployments to the Far East, submarine patrols, secondments to NATO, the UK Ministry of Defence and the National Security Secretariat.
Rear Admiral Woods joined the Royal Navy in 1988 after training at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, south west England, and at sea. He is a graduate of the prestigious Royal College of Defence Studies, where he was awarded the Wellington Prize for Strategic Analysis.
Previous roles in government
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Defence Attaché, USA