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Last updated: 08 October 2009
Dr. John Reid, the Home Secretary, has announced that Jonathan Evans will become the Security Service's new Director General. He will succeed Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller on 21 April 2007 as the Service's sixteenth Director General.
Since 2005 Jonathan Evans has served as the Security Service's Deputy Director General. Prior to that, the main focus of his work has been on counter-terrorism, both domestic and international. He served as the head of international counter-terrorism investigations from 1999 to 2001, and was appointed director of international counter-terrorism only ten days before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. Since then he has played a leading role in tackling the threat of al Qaida and related terrorist networks.