Anne Keast-Butler

Anne Louise Keast-Butler (born 1970) is the Director of GCHQ, the UK's intelligence, cyber and security agency. Appointed in May 2023, she is the seventeenth person to hold the role and succeeded Sir Jeremy Fleming. She was also made an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 2024.

Personal life Keast-Butler grew up in Cambridge. Her father was a consultant ophthalmologist with academic roles at the University of Cambridge. She studied for a degree in mathematics from Merton College, Oxford.

She is married, with three children.