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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Nationality
  
British

Rank
  
Director General

Role
  
MI5 officer

Active
  
1983–present

Name
  
Andrew Parker

Service
  
Security Service

Occupation
  
Intelligence officer


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Alma mater
  
University of Cambridge

Andrew Parker (born 1962) is the Director-General of the British Security Service, the United Kingdom's domestic security and counter-intelligence service.

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Biography

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Parker was educated at Churchill College, Cambridge where he studied natural sciences. He joined the Security Service in 1983. He was seconded to HM Customs and Excise as Director Intelligence in 1999 before becoming Director, International Terrorism at the Security Service in February 2005. After leading the Security Service's response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot, he became Deputy Director-General in 2007.

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Parker went on to become Director-General of the Service in April 2013. As of 2015, Parker was paid a salary of between £165,000 and £169,999 by the department, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.


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References

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