Moore, director-general of political affairs at the Foreign Office who previously served as a director in MI6 and as a deputy national security adviser, will take up his role in the autumn, replacing current chief Alex Younger
“He returns to SIS with tremendous experience and will oversee the work of a group of men and women whose tireless efforts are rarely seen in public, but which are critical for the security and prosperity of the UK,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Wednesday.Moore served as British ambassador to Turkey from January 2014 to December 2017. Born in Libya, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard.
Married with 2 children, he lists his interests as golf, hiking, scuba-diving, Turkish carpets and porcelain, and visiting historical sites.
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