Nigel Norman Inkster
CMG (born April 1956)
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. is the former director of operations and intelligence for the British
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6),
and was till June 2017 the Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the
International Institute for Strategic Studies
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The 2017 Global Go To Think ...
(IISS). He remains as a Senior Adviser for Cyber Security and China, Nigel assists with IISS research that assesses the geopolitical and technological challenges posed by China.
Inkster was educated at
Oxford
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and joined SIS in 1975, for which he served in posts in
Kuala Lumpur
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Bangkok
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Beijing
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, and
Hong Kong
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. He rose to become deputy to
SIS chief Richard Dearlove, and was widely assumed to be in line for the top spot when Dearlove announced his departure in 2003 . The selection of
John Scarlett
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instead of Inkster was the subject of considerable political controversy.
Inkster was a member of the SIS board for seven years. Inkster left SIS in 2006.
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Inkster has argued that the UK should not take part in direct military action in Syria, although supporting rebel forces was sensible.]Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace
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, and served on the commission until its successful conclusion in 2019, participating in the drafting of its eight norms related to non-aggression in cyberspace. Since August 2017 he has been Director of Geopolitical and Intelligence Analysis at London-based Enodo Economics
References
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1952 births
Living people
Secret Intelligence Service personnel
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Alumni of the University of Oxford
British intelligence operatives
Commissioners of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace