Group Captain Gareth Taylor joined the Royal Air Force in October 2001 as a People Operations Officer. A professionally qualified Human Resource Manager, he has served on many different units within the UK, including the Ministry of Defence Head Office and Headquarters Air Command at High Wycombe in a variety of interesting and challenging tours in recruitment, human resource management welfare and personnel policy. His operational experience includes working with the US Air Force during Operation TELIC (Iraq), the European Union in the Balkans, and as a media officer role with NATO in Afghanistan. Promoted to group captain in November 2021, he was made the Assistant Head Strategy within the Chief of Defence People’s Team in Whitehall.
In February 2024, near 20 years after leaving as the Officer Commanding Armed Forces Careers Offices Birmingham and Coventry, he was assigned into his current role as Group Captain Recruiting and Selection. In this role he is responsible to the Chief of Air Staff to recruit the high-quality people needed to sustain RAF operational capability today, and into the future.
Group Captain Taylor is married with three school-age children. He is very passionate about basketball, he plays the game, coaches, and passes on his skills to a team of young people in his hometown and is also a trustee of a major basketball academy in the south of England.
