Jonathan Evans (MI5)

Jonathan Evans

Jonathan Evans is the Director General of MI5 and is the sixteenth person to have held that post since it was created in 1909.

According to the MI5 website:

Jonathan graduated from Bristol University, where he gained a degree in Classical Studies. On joining the Security Service in 1980 he worked on counter-espionage investigations, before moving in 1985 to protective security policy, advising departmental security officers on the protection of classified information. Jonathan then worked on implementing policy changes as part of Sir Anthony Duff's modernisation of the Service.

Since then, Jonathan's main focus has been counter terrorism, both international and domestic. Various postings in Irish-related counter terrorism during the late 1980s and 1990s were interspersed with a spell as head of the Security Service's secretariat, and also two years attached to the Home Office. During this secondment, Jonathan was closely involved in the development and implementation of VIP security policy.

Evans gave a speech to the Society of Editors in Manchester in November 2007.