Sir Alex Younger KCMG
RUSI Trustee
RUSI’s Trustees and staff record with great sadness and profound regret the death of Sir Alex Younger, RUSI Trustee and the longest-serving Chief of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service in half a century.
Biography
Alex Younger was for 30 years a career intelligence officer in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. He served in Europe, the Middle East and Afghanistan. He was appointed as Director of Counter Terrorism in 2009, and as Chief from 2014 to 2020. Prior to SIS, Alex served in the British Army as an infantry officer. He attended St Andrews’ University.