Kevin Tebbit
British civil servant
About Kevin Tebbit
Born 1946.
Sir Kevin Reginald Tebbit (born 18 October 1946) is a former British civil servant.
Career He was educated at the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys and was a senior history scholar at St John's College, Cambridge. Tebbit joined the Ministry of Defence in 1969 and in 1972 became assistant private secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence.
He is a governor of the conference-organising Ditchley Foundation, based at Chipping Norton. He is also Visiting Professor at The Policy Institute at King's College London. He was a non-executive director of private intelligence company the Smiths Group from 2006 to 2018.
Tebbit gave evidence to The Iraq Inquiry on both 3 December 2009 and 3 February 2010.
Tebbit is a supporter of West Ham United, his hobbies include music and archeology. He is married with two children.
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