Charles Farr
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Charles Blandford Farr CMG OBE |
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| Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee | |
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Assumed office November 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Jon Day |
| Director of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism | |
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In office July 2007-November 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
Gordon Brown David Cameron |
| Home Secretary |
Jacqui Smith Alan Johnson Theresa May |
| Personal details | |
| Education | Monkton Combe School |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Charles Blandford Farr, CMG OBE is a British civil servant, intelligence officer, and diplomat. He is the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of the Joint Intelligence Organisation at the Cabinet Office. Before that, from 2007 until 2015 Farr was the Director of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) at the United Kingdom's Home Office.
Farr was educated at Monkton Combe School, then an all-boys independent boarding school in Somerset. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he completed a PhD in the philosophy of aesthetics.
Farr worked for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in Afghanistan in the 1980s, in southern Africa and the Middle East supplying money to Afghan warlords in return for stopping the production of opium. Farr was MI6's director of security and public affairs at the time of his appointment to the OSCT by John Reid, then Home Secretary, in the wake of the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot. This role made him the senior government official responsible for counter terrorist and organised crime strategy.
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