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 *2022 - 2025 Senior State Threats Adviser working for the [[Joint Funds Unit]] and attached to the [[National Security Directorate]] of the [[FCDO]]
 *2019-2022 Head of Strategic Communications, [[HMG Russia Unit|Russia Unit]], [[Eastern Europe & Central Asia Directorate]], The [[Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office]] (FCDO). Darren leads the unit’s [[Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme]]
-*2002 (approx) - 2019 - Over the past 20 years he has worked on various international development and national security issues including whilst posted in Ethiopia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Serbia
+*2015-2019 (approx) Posted to Serbia and to Bosnia and Herzegovina
 ===Biographical details===
 In a 2021 biographical note on the [[Aspen Institute UK]] website:

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 ==Family==
-Boyling was born in Brentwood, Essex to [[Paul J D Boyling]] and [[Carol L Boyling]] (nee Emmerton). His parents married Jan-Mar 1977 in Brentwood, Essex.<ref>https://www.freebmd2.org.uk/69feed70b18f7c63507f61c3/entry-information/258702939/paul-j-d-boyling-marriage-essex-brentwood-v9-p1160?locale=en&record_hash=KRkm7hl63ZvPTf19x%2BF27Q&search_entry=258702939</ref>
+Boyling was born in Brentwood, Essex to [[Paul J D Boyling]] and [[Carol L Boyling]] (nee Emmerton). His parents married Jan-Mar 1977 in Brentwood, Essex.<ref>https://www.freebmd2.org.uk/69feed70b18f7c63507f61c3/entry-information/258702939/paul-j-d-boyling-marriage-essex-brentwood-v9-p1160?locale=en&record_hash=KRkm7hl63ZvPTf19x%2BF27Q&search_entry=258702939</ref> He has a younger sister called [[Gemma Carol Boyling]] (born 1983<ref>https://www.freebmd2.org.uk/69feeee3b18f7c41b0776423/entry-information/272385423/gemma-carol-boyling-birth-essex-brentwood-v9-p1852?locale=en&record_hash=BDIWhgEmOae1fMfRP4s1kQ&search_entry=272385423</ref>)
 ==Career==

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 ==Career==
-*2022 - 2022 Senior State Threats Adviser working for the [[Joint Funds Unit]] and attached to the [[National Security Directorate]] of the [[FCDO]]
+*2022 - 2025 Senior State Threats Adviser working for the [[Joint Funds Unit]] and attached to the [[National Security Directorate]] of the [[FCDO]]
 *2019-2022 Head of Strategic Communications, [[HMG Russia Unit|Russia Unit]], [[Eastern Europe & Central Asia Directorate]], The [[Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office]] (FCDO). Darren leads the unit’s [[Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme]]
 *2002 (approx) - 2019 - Over the past 20 years he has worked on various international development and national security issues including whilst posted in Ethiopia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Serbia

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 *2022 - 2022 Senior State Threats Adviser working for the [[Joint Funds Unit]] and attached to the [[National Security Directorate]] of the [[FCDO]]
 *2019-2022 Head of Strategic Communications, [[HMG Russia Unit|Russia Unit]], [[Eastern Europe & Central Asia Directorate]], The [[Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office]] (FCDO). Darren leads the unit’s [[Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme]]
+*2002 (approx) - 2019 - Over the past 20 years he has worked on various international development and national security issues including whilst posted in Ethiopia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Serbia
 ===Biographical details===
 In a 2021 biographical note on the [[Aspen Institute UK]] website:

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 *2022 - 2022 Senior State Threats Adviser working for the [[Joint Funds Unit]] and attached to the [[National Security Directorate]] of the [[FCDO]]
--2022 Head of Strategic Communications, [[HMG Russia Unit|Russia Unit]], [[Eastern Europe & Central Asia Directorate]], The [[Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office]] (FCDO). Darren leads the unit’s [[Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme]]
+*2019-2022 Head of Strategic Communications, [[HMG Russia Unit|Russia Unit]], [[Eastern Europe & Central Asia Directorate]], The [[Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office]] (FCDO). Darren leads the unit’s [[Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme]]
 ===Biographical details===

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 [[File:Darren boyling (1).png|thumb|right|500px|[[Darren Paul Boyling]], British intelligence officer in 2021.]]
 In a 2021 biographical note on the [[Aspen Institute UK]] website:
 :Darren Boyling – Head of Strategic Communications, [[HMG Russia Unit|Russia Unit]], [[Eastern Europe & Central Asia Directorate]], The [[Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office]] (FCDO). Darren leads the unit’s [[Counter Disinformation and Media Development]] programme which supports independent media, CSOs and partner governments across Europe. His team also provides strategic communication capability to the FCDO on Russia related issues. Over the past 20 years he has worked on various international development and national security issues including whilst posted in Ethiopia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Serbia. He holds an MA in Public Policy and Management.<ref>https://www.aspenuk.org/events/eu-uk-cooperation-against-foreign-disinformation/</ref>

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 :Darren Boyling, a Senior State Threats Adviser working for the [[Joint Funds Unit]] and is currently attached the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s [[National Security Directorate]]. Darren provides advice on programming and understanding state threats and is building the FCDO’s global state threats network. He was previously Head of Strategic Communications in the [[HMG Russia Unit]] in the FCDO. Over the past 20 years he has worked on various international development and national security issues including whilst posted in Ethiopia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Serbia. <ref>https://www.broderickmcdonald.com/broderick-mcdonald-aspen-institute</ref>
-Elsewhere on the page the [[Joint Funds Unit]] is described as being in the [[Cabinet Office]].
+Elsewhere on the page the [[Joint Funds Unit]] is described as being in the [[Cabinet Office]]. Given that it oversees the [[CSSF]] and its successor the [[UK ISF]], it is clear that Boyling continued to work - in this post - in the intelligence community.
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