Director General of MI5
# Director General of MI5

The Director General of the Security Service is the head of the Security Service (commonly known as MI5), the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency. The Director General is assisted by a Deputy Director General and an Assistant Director General, and reports to the Home Secretary, although the Security Service is not formally part of the Home Office.

## List of directors general

Directors General have been:

* Maj Gen Sir Vernon Kell, 1909–1940
* Brigadier 'Jasper' Harker, Acting, June 1940 – April 1941
* Sir David Petrie, 1941–1946
* Sir Percy Sillitoe, 1946–1953
* Sir Dick White, 1953–1956
* Sir Roger Hollis, 1956–1965
* Sir Martin Furnival Jones, 1965–1972
* Sir Michael Hanley, 1972–1978
* Sir Howard Smith, 1978–1981
* Sir John Jones, 1981–1985
* Sir Antony Duff, 1985–1988
* Sir Patrick Walker, 1988–1992
* Dame Stella Rimington, 1992–1996
* Sir Stephen Lander, 1996–2002
* Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, 2002–2007
* Sir Jonathan Evans, 2007–2013
* Sir Andrew Parker, 2013–2020
* Ken McCallum, from 2020
