MI6
Blaise Metreweli, new director of Mi6
Anthropologist, geekwith a long career of espionage, Blaise Metreweli will become the 18th leader of the UK secret services. It will replace Sir Richard Moore, who leaves office later this year.
British secret intelligence service will be led by a woman for the first time in the agency’s history.
The British Prime Minister Keir Starr announced this Sunday that he selected Blaise Metreweli, A career agent with extensive experience in technology and operations in the Middle East to lead the history of MI6.
Currently responsible for technology and innovation in the service, Metreweli said he was “proud and honored” for being invited to lead the organization, says A.
Stmerer classified the appointment as “historicat a time when the work of our intelligence services It has never been as vital as now“.
The MI6 has as mission collect information abroad to improve the safety of the UK, and as main objectives prevent terrorismdisturb the Hostile States Activities and reinforce cybersecurity.
The boss of the agency, commonly referred to as ‘c’(although in the fictional universe of James Bond is named “m” code), is the single member British secret services whose identity is known publicly.
47-year-old Metreweli is currently director-general ‘Q’-head of the crucial division of Technology and Innovationwhich aims to keep the identities of agents secret and develop New ways to avoid threats like the biometric surveillance of China.
“MI6 plays a vital role – Together with Mi5 and GCHQ – In the protection of the British people and in the promotion of the interests of the United Kingdom abroad, ”said the new M6.
“I am looking forward to continuing this work alongside the brave officials and agents of the MI6 and our many international partners. ”
Metreweli, who studied anthropology at the University of Cambridge, he previously occupied Mi5 Direction PositionsMi6’s internal security sister agency, and has spent most of its career to work in the Middle East and Europe.
In an interview with in 2021, when I was at Mi5, under the pseudonym of “Director K”Metreweli said the threats to UK national security “are really diverse.”
“The threats we are analyzing exist mainly around government protection, protection of secrets, protection of our personnel – Therefore, against murders – protection of our economysensitive technology and critical knowledge, ”he said.
“The activity of Russian state, not Russia itself, remains a threatand China is changing the way the world iswhich has incredible opportunities and threats to the UK, ”said Metreweli.
The organization that will drive faces Multiple and unprecedented challenges. In geographical terms, this challenges origin mainly in the Russia, ChinaThey will and North Korea, as the Four countries cooperate each time more to undermine the interests of the United Kingdom and the West around the world.
But there are also Technical Challengessays the BBC. The role of MI6 is to recruit human agents to Steal secrets of Britain’s opponentswhich include both hostile nations and non-state groups like al-Qaeda.
In September last year, in an article published in, the outgoing chief leader of MI6, Sir Richard Moorewarned that the international world was “under threatens in a way that we didn’t see From a cold war“.
Richard Moore, who will leave office in the fall after five years in office, said he was “absolutely delighted“With the” historical appointment “of his colleague.” Blaise is a highly competent intelligence officer and leader, and one of our MAIN TECHNOLOGY thinkers“He said.
