Government Communications Headquarters - Leadership

Leadership

The following is a list of the heads of the operational heads of GCHQ and GC&CS:

  • Alastair Denniston (1921 – February 1942) (continued as Deputy Director (Diplomatic and Commercial) until 1945).
  • Sir Edward Travis (February 1942 – 1952)
  • Sir Eric Jones (April 1952 – 1960)
  • Sir Clive Loehnis (1960–1964)
  • Sir Leonard Hooper (1965–1973)
  • Sir Arthur Bonsall (1973–1978)
  • Sir Brian John Maynard Tovey (1978–1983)
  • Sir Peter Marychurch (1983–1989)
  • Sir John Anthony Adye (1989–1996)
  • Sir David Omand (July 1996 – December 1997)
  • Sir Kevin Tebbit (January–July 1998)
  • Sir Francis Richards (July 1998 – April 2003)
  • Sir David Pepper (April 2003 – July 2008)
  • Iain Lobban (July 2008–present)

Read more about this topic:  Government Communications Headquarters

Famous quotes containing the word leadership:

    “The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency—indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman—but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)