Later Career
In retirement Slater has served as a Non-Executive Director of VT Group and of Lockheed Martin UK. He has also been Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Chairman of the Royal Navy Club of 1765 & 1785, Chairman of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum and Chairman of the Council of Management of the White Ensign Association. He currently serves as a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire, and an Elder Brother of Trinity House and is a Past Prime Warden of the Shipwrights' Company and a Freeman of the City of London. His interests mostly include outdoor activities.
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