UK: Hurd takes over at OSCT
Issue 1013
- 23 Apr 2016
| 1 minute read
A former senior diplomat in the Middle East, Thomas Hurd has formally taken over as director-general of the UK’s Office of Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT). In January it was announced he would replace Charles Farr, who now chairs the Joint Intelligence Committee. A son of former Conservative foreign secretary Lord (Douglas) Hurd of Westwell, Hurd has three children from his marriage to Catherine ‘Sian’ Hurd né Aubrey, who died in a fall from the roof of their New York apartment in May 2011 as the family was preparing to move back to London after Hurd’s three years at the United Nations Security Council.
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