Douglas Royal is the Navigator for the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands region. He works out of Anchorage, where he and his wife are raising their two daughters.
Doug is enrolled to the McGrath Native Village Council and is a shareholder of Doyon, Ltd. and MTNT, Ltd. He attended Mt. Edgecumbe High School; roughnecked for Doyon Drilling on rigs 15, 14, and in the Inlet; served on the Board of Directors for his village corporation for a term; and headed up Doyon Drilling’s training program before returning to college at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Even though Doug calls the Interior ‘home,’ some of his closest friends from MEHS are from the Chain. His commercial fishing childhood also anchors him to the region.