John Chilcot

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John Chilcot
Iraq Inquiry

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]

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

Notes

  1. About the Inquiry, Iraq Inquiry, accessed 2 August 2009.
  2. Sir John Chilcot, Iraq Inquiry, accessed 2 August 2009.
  3. Sir John Chilcot, Iraq Inquiry, accessed 2 August 2009.
  4. Sir John Chilcot, Iraq Inquiry, accessed 2 August 2009.
  5. Sir John Chilcot, Iraq Inquiry, accessed 2 August 2009.