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Richard Moore (diplomat)

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Moore, more recently, transitioned to a mainstream diplomatic career in the FCO, leaving MI6, and becoming Director for Programmes and Change from 2008 to 2010, and then Director for Europe, Latin America and Globalization from 2010 to 2012.
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Moore was the first member of the British secret service to openly use X (formerly Twitter), when on 2 October 2020 his tweets from his first day as Chief of MI6 made the news for their humorous
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On 5 May 2021 Moore announced that MI6 had begun "green spying" to investigate secretly if foreign nations were genuinely keeping to their emission reduction commitments in order to tackle
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In September 2024 Moore stated that international world order is "under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War".
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In February 2021, Moore apologised publicly to MI6 officers who were dismissed from the agency under the ban on
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from 2018 until August 2020. On the 29 July 2020, it was announced that Moore would become
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Moore's career has been as an MI6 Intelligence Officer through diplomatic cover in the
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staff prior to 1991, and called the policy "wrong, unjust and discriminatory".
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from 2001 to 2005. He was the section head of the Security Policy Group at the
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Director General, Political at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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from 1998 to 2001 and Deputy Director of the Middle East from 2005 to 2008.
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Gentleman, Amelia; Walker, Peter; Mason, Rowena (19 March 2024).
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for services to national security and British foreign policy.
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Moore's grandfather Jack Buckley served as a soldier of the
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Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Anderlini, Jamil; Vinocur, Nicholas (19 July 2023).
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Sir
KCMG

Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service
Incumbent
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Keir Starmer
Sir Alex Younger
Director General, Political at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Elizabeth II
Karen Pierce
Sir Tim Barrow
British Ambassador to Turkey
Elizabeth II
David Reddaway
Dominick Chilcott
Tripoli, Libya
Worcester College, Oxford
BA
Harvard University
X Profile
KCMG
British civil servant
chief
Secret Intelligence Service
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
British ambassador to Turkey
St George's College, Weybridge

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