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Ken McCallum
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Sir Kenneth Douglas McCallum is a British intelligence officer who has served as the director general of MI5 since 2020. He joined MI5 over two decades ago, working on Northern Ireland-related terrorism and leading counter-terrorism investigations during the London 2012 Olympic Games. Appointed Deputy Director General of MI5 in 2017, he subsequently led the agency's response to the 2018 attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal. In 2020, he succeeded Sir Andrew Parker as Director General, a role in which he has highlighted increasing state threats from Russia, China, and Iran.
In the news: Warned of escalating hybrid threats from Russia and Iran targeting military bases, while cautioning that artificial intelligence could be exploited to develop biological weapons.
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