Overview

• Metreweli, 47, will assume leadership of MI6 on October 1, succeeding Sir Richard Moore
• She has held technology and operational posts in Europe and the Middle East, including as MI6’s director of technology and innovation
• Metreweli studied anthropology at Cambridge University and began her intelligence career with MI6 in 1999 after earlier work with MI5
• Her appointment is designed to modernize MI6’s approach by prioritizing cyber operations and digital intelligence gathering
• She joins a growing number of women leading intelligence services worldwide, following recent female heads at MI5, GCHQ and agencies in the United States and Australia