Lieutenant-General Peter Scott was born in Northern Ireland and grew up in Kincardine, Ontario. Enrolling in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1990, he graduated from the Royal Military College in 1994 and was commissioned as an Infantry Officer into The Royal Canadian Regiment.
He has had the privilege of commanding from platoon to division level; most notably commanding the 1st Battalion of The Royal Canadian Regiment, the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Centre, Task Force Jerusalem, 4th Canadian Division and Joint Task Force Central, and most recently as the Deputy Commander Canadian Army.
Lieutenant-General Scott has participated in six operational deployments throughout his career including the United Nations Protection Force in Croatia in 1994-95, the NATO Stabilization Force in Bosnia in 1998, the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in 2005 and again from 2013-2014. He also deployed to Ramallah in the West Bank in 2010 as part of the capacity building efforts of Op PROTEUS under the United States Security Coordinator (USSC) and had the honour of returning to this mission again in 2019 to be appointed as the Deputy Coordinator for USSC and Commander Task Force Jerusalem.
Throughout his career Lieutenant-General Scott has held a variety of staff positions including appointments at the Battalion and Brigade level, working on Army projects in the Directorate of Land Requirements, Chief of Staff to the Director General Land Capability Development, Infantry and Combat Arms Career Manager, Directing Staff at the Army Staff College, the Canadian Army G3, the Director General of Operations in the Strategic Joint Staff, and also served as the Chief of Staff at the Canadian Joint Operations Command. He assumed the role of Deputy Commander Joint Force Command Naples on 15 July 2024.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce and a Masters of Defence Studies, both from The Royal Military College. He is a graduate of the Jamaica Junior Command and Staff Course, the Canadian Army Command and Staff College, the Joint Command and Staff Programme and the National Security Programme.
He is married to a talented and patient wife and together they are the proud parents of a daughter and son and grandparents to three wonderful boys.