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Stella Rimington was formerly Director General of the Security Service (MI5).
In 1969, Dame Stella she joined the Security Service. She worked in all the main fields of the Service's responsibilities, counter subversion, counter espionage and counter terrorism, becoming successively director of all three branches. She was appointed Director General of MI5 in 1992, the first woman to hold the post and the first Director General to be publicly named. During her time as Director General she pursued a policy of greater openness for MI5, giving the 1994 Dimbleby Lecture on BBC TV and several other public lectures and publishing a booklet about the Service. She retired from MI5 in April 1996.
She is currently a Non Executive Director of BG Group plc and an Associate Director of CPS, where she does executive coaching and mentoring. She was a Non-Executive Director of Marks & Spencer plc from 1997 to 2004 and until 2001 was Chairman of the Institute of Cancer Research and Trustee of the Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust. She is a Governor of Town Close House Preparatory School, Norwich.
Stella Rimington was made a Dame Commander of the Bath in the 1996 New Year Honours List. She has received honorary degrees from Nottingham, Exeter and London Metropolitan Universities.
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