TD-Info Talks – In Conversation with AVM Ange Baker

After growing up in South East London, Ange studied Economics and German at Leeds University and then joined the RAF as a logistics officer in 1996.

Her early years were operationally focused, undertaking tours in Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan, serving in movements, fuels and helicopter support roles. She gained a range of staff experience in Air Command and at the Permanent Joint Headquarters and commanded 44 Mobile Air Movements Squadron. She attended Advanced Command and Staff Course 12 and promoted to Wing Commander on completion in 2009 and was posted to an international engagement role in the MOD.

From 2012-2014, she commanded the Airport of Embarkation Wing at RAF Brize Norton, during the redeployment from Afghanistan, and then completed her final tour in rank as the Military Assistant to Director General Joint Force Development. As a Group Captain, she was the logistics lead in Air Command for 3 years and then became the Air Commodities Team Leader within Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), prior to attending the Royal College of Defence Studies in 2020.

She promoted to Air Commodore in 2021 and became Head of Futures and the Defence Operational Energy Authority within Defence Support. In April 2024 she became Head of the Commissioning and Managing Organisation in DE&S (overseeing the Logistics, Commodities and Services Transformation Programme). In June 2025 she was appointed as Principal Logistician, a secondary duty as the RAF’s senior serving logistics officer.

In February 2026 Ange promoted to Air Vice-Marshal and assumed the position of Director Joint Support within the National Armaments Director Group.

21st July 2026, 1230-1330