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FIRST Woman, New BOSS of MI6 is Granddaughter of NAZI Spy Chief
Blaise Metreweli Named as FIRST Woman to Lead UK Intelligence Service MI6
SUPER BRAINY Metreweli 47, has held series of director level roles in foreign intelligence service and in domestic agency MI5
The Guardian 16 JUN 2025
Blaise Metreweli is currently head of MI6s Q section, responsible for technology and innovation.
MI6, the UKs foreign intelligence service, is to be led by a woman for the first time, Keir Starmer has announced.
Metreweli currently runs MI6?s technology division, known as Q branch to reflect the convention in the James Bond films, in which 007?s quartermaster, most recently played by Ben Whishaw, is known as Q.
In real life there are thought to have been at least two women, including Metreweli, who have held the job as the agency?s technology chief, but in more than 60 years of Bond films Q has never been female.
Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer who joined the service in 1999, will take over from Sir Richard Moore in the autumn, becoming its 18th chief.
Metreweli, 47, is currently the director general of MI6s Q section, responsible for technology and innovation, and previously held other director level roles in MI6 and in MI5, the domestic security and counter intelligence agency.
According to the other brief biographical details given in the announcement, she studied social anthropology at Cambridge University and spent much of her career in operational roles in the Middle East and Europe.
Starmer The historic appointment of Blaise Metreweli comes at a time when the work of our intelligence services has never been more vital. The United Kingdom is facing threats on an unprecedented scale, be it aggressors who send their spy ships to our waters or hackers whose sophisticated cyber plots seek to disrupt our public services.
Metreweli, who was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George last year, said I am proud and honoured to be asked to lead my service.
MI6 plays a vital role with MI5 and GCHQ in keeping the British people safe and promoting UK interests overseas. I look forward to continuing that work alongside the brave officers and agents of MI6 and our many international partners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dytu2X3k0Q
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