About Adrian Bird
Adrian Bird was a British civil servant.
Adrian Philip Bird is a senior civil servant who has served as Chief of Defence Intelligence at the UK Ministry of Defence. He will take over as Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee in July 2026, succeeding Dame Madeleine Alessandri.
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.
In the 2022 New Year Honours, Bird was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) "for services to British foreign policy".
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