Sir David Omand GCB
Sir David Omand GCB is a visiting professor at the War Studies Department, King's College London. He was appointed in 2002 the first UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible to the Prime Minister for the professional health of the intelligence community, national counter-terrorism strategy and “homeland security”. He was Permanent Secretary of the Home Office from 1997 to 2000, and before that Director of GCHQ, the UK’s signals intelligence and cybersecurity organisation. Previously, in the Ministry of Defence he served as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Policy, Principal Private Secretary to the Defence Secretary, and UK Defence Counsellor NATO Brussels. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.