John Chilcot
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 John Chilcot facts

• His appointment as chairman of an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath was announced in June 2009
• He was educated at Brighton College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read English and languages
• A career civil servant until his retirement in 1997, he served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office, Deputy Under-Secretary at the Home Office in charge of the Police Department, and a variety of posts in the Home Office, the Civil Service Department and the Cabinet Office, including Private Secretary appointments to Home Secretaries Roy Jenkins, Merlyn Rees, and William Whitelaw, and to the Head of the Civil Service, William Armstrong
• He is now president of Britain's independent policing think tank, The Police Foundation
• His honours include CB (1990), KCB (1994), and GCB (1998)
• He became a Privy Counsellor in 2004, and was a member of the Butler Review of the use of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003
• He acted as "staff counsellor" to MI5 and MI6 from 1999 to 2004, "dealing with private and personal complaints from members of the intelligence services about their work and conditions"
• He is currently the Chairman of the board of Building and Civil Engineering Holday Schemes Management Ltd