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Adrian Bird (civil servant)

Adrian Philip Bird CB is a senior civil servant who serves as Chief of Defence Intelligence at the UK Ministry of Defence.

Biography

Bird joined GCHQ and served in a variety of roles there, latterly as a director-general, before being appointed Chief of Defence Intelligence at the Ministry of Defence in September 2022.

In December 2025, Bird disclosed that there had been a 50% increase in threats identified over the previous year.

Bird was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2022 New Year Honours.

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