Kevin Tebbit

Kevin Tebbit

Sir Kevin Reginald Tebbit KCB CMG (born 1946"TEBBIT, Sir Kevin Reginald (1946 - )", "Debrett's People of Today", 2004] ) was a British civil servant. From January to July 1998, Tebbit was director of GCHQGuardian, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/hutton/story/0,13822,1022662,00.html "Profile: Sir Kevin Tebbit"] , August 20, 2003.] [ [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmpubacc/65/3120107.htm House of Commons - Public Accounts - Minutes of Evidence ] ] . Following this he became the Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Defence before retiring in November 2005 to take up posts in industry and academia. [http://www.smiths-group.com/page.aspx?pointerid=9B24743C61104F0FB7161B94011BB509,]

Tebbit was educated at the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys and St John's College, Cambridge.

He is a governor of the conference-organising Ditchley Foundation, based at Chipping Norton. [cite web
url=http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/64/the-governors.htm
title=The Ditchley Foundation: The Governors]

He is Visiting Professor in history at Queen Mary, University of London. He is chairman of the defence company Finmeccanica UK. He holds a number of other business appointments. [http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/tebbitk.html]

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