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Mi5understood:
Law, Liberty & Licence
Lord Parker will discuss the interaction of law and liberty
in MI5’s work drawing on practical experience across nearly four decades. He
aims to inform, provoke and challenge. He will tackle such questions as: Is
there a balance between security and liberty? How does oversight help?
How are proportion and perspective brought? What is the place of ethics? Does
the law licence or constrain? Along the way he will talk about pitfalls and
challenge some popular misconceptions.
About the Speaker
Lord Parker of Minsmere KCB was Director General of MI5 for
seven years, the culmination of 37 years working for the Security Service.
Leading MI5 through many acute security challenges, Lord
Parker built a reputation for delivering success through operational
excellence, close partnerships, and modernising MI5’s leadership culture, with
a focus on calm, people-centred responses to even the most dramatic of crises.
He sharpened MI5’s mission-based drive, founded on clear shared values and a
determined commitment to practical inclusion.
Lord Parker was knighted in 2019. He was granted a Life
Peerage and appointed to the House of Lords in December 2020. He is a Knight Commander of the Order of the
Bath (KCB), and holds the Légion d’Honneur (France), Grand Cross
of the Order of Merit (Portugal), and Medal of Honour (Estonia).
He grew up in Newcastle, was educated at a local
comprehensive school, and gained a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge
before joining MI5 in 1983. He retired from MI5 in April 2020.
Lord Parker is currently pursuing a portfolio career. He is
a non-executive director of Babcock International Group, an adviser to
Telicent, a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute and
Visiting Professor at Northumbria University. He was recently selected by HM
The Queen as Her Majesty’s next Lord Chamberlain, a part-time non-executive
role which he will take up on 1 April 2021.
Learn more about Lord Parker's Visiting Professorship at Northumbria.
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