John Chilcot
Sir John Chilcot (1939-) is the chairman of the Iraq Inquiry which was announced by Gordon Brown in June 2009 and began work a month later.[1]
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Education
Chilcot was educated at Brighton College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he read English, and Modern and Medieval Languages.[2]
Northern Ireland Office
Chilcot was Permanent Secretary of the Northern Ireland Office from 1990 until his retirement in 1997.[3]
Reviews and inquiries
The Iraq Inquiry website lists a number of inquiries and reviews to which Chilcot was appointed following his retirement:
- including the Independent Commission on the Voting System (1997-8), the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Public Records and its successor National Archives Council (1999-04), a review of Royal and VIP security, an inquiry into the IRA break-in at the PSNI Special Branch HQ (2002), and the Review of the Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction by a Committee of Privy Counsellors, chaired by Lord Butler, (2004).[4]
Intelligence staff counsellor
Butler was Staff Counsellor to the Security and Intelligence Agencies (1999-2004) and the National Criminal Intelligence Service (2002-06).[5]
Affiliations
- Building and Civil Engineering Group - Chairman
- Police Foundation - Chairman
- Royal Anniversary Trust - Member, Awards Council
- Police Rehabilitation Trust - Trustee
- Centre for Contemporary British History - chair, Advisory Committee
- Institute of Historical Research, member, Advisory Council
Notes
- ↑ About the Inquiry, Iraq Inquiry, accessed 2 August 2009.
- ↑ Sir John Chilcot, Iraq Inquiry, accessed 2 August 2009.
- ↑ Sir John Chilcot, Iraq Inquiry, accessed 2 August 2009.
- ↑ Sir John Chilcot, Iraq Inquiry, accessed 2 August 2009.
- ↑ Sir John Chilcot, Iraq Inquiry, accessed 2 August 2009.
