Director General of MI5

The Director General of the Security Service is the head of the Security Service (commonly known as MI5), the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency. The Director-General is assisted by a Deputy Director-General and an Assistant Director-General, and reports to the Home Secretary, although the Security Service is not formally part of the Home Office.

The present Director General is Andrew Parker, who has held the role since April 2013.^[1]

List of Directors General

Directors General have been:^[2]

• Maj Gen Sir Vernon Kell, 1909–1940
• Brigadier 'Jasper' Harker, Acting June 1940–April 1941^[3]
• Sir David Petrie, 1941–1946
• Sir Percy Sillitoe, 1946–1953
• Sir Dick White, 1953–1956
• Sir Roger Hollis, 1956–1965
• Sir Martin Furnival Jones, 1965–1972
• Sir Michael Hanley, 1972–1979
• Sir Howard Smith, 1979–1981
• Sir John Jones, 1981–1985
• Sir Antony Duff, 1985–1988
• Sir Patrick Walker, 1988–1991
• Dame Stella Rimington, 1992–1996
• Sir Stephen Lander, 1996–2002
• Baroness Manningham-Buller, 2002–2007
• Sir Jonathan Evans, 2007–2013
• Andrew Parker, 2013–Present

See also

• Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service
• Director of the Government Communications Headquarters

References

1. Travis, Alan (28 March 2013). "MI5 deputy named as director general". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
2. "Former Directors General". Retrieved 25 October 2014.
3. "Oswald Allen Harker (1886-1968)". State Secrets... Retrieved 18 November 2007.

External links

• List of Directors-General on the MI5 website