Bruce Ferguson

Air Marshal Sir Bruce Reid Ferguson, (born 14 July 1949) is a retired Royal New Zealand Air Force officer who served as Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force and Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau. He took up the appointment when the previous director, Warren Tucker, was appointed as Director of the Security Intelligence Service on 1 November 2006. Ferguson's term of appointment was for four years, stepping down from the role in 2011.

Previous to this he was the acting director of the New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management,

Early life and family Ferguson was born in Napier on 14 July 1949, the son of Phyllis and Arthur Ferguson, and educated at Tauranga Boys' College. 1984 – Air Force Cross in the 1984 Queen's Birthday Honours 1990 – New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal 1994 – Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours 2006 – Darjah Utama Bakti Cemerlang (Tentera) (Distinguished Service Order) (Singapore) 2009 – DCNZM redesignated as Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit