Rebecca Kitteridge

Rebecca Lucy Kitteridge (born ) is a New Zealand public servant currently serving as Deputy Public Service Commissioner.

She was Secretary of the Cabinet from 2008 to November 2013, and acting chief executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from 2023 to 2024.

Career Kitteridge attended Upper Hutt College, and is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington. Her early career was in private legal practice before holding positions at the Crown Law Office, Cabinet Office and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. During the last six months of this time she was seconded to the GCSB as acting associate director-general to carry out a review of compliance systems and processes there, in response to concerns of illegal spying on Kim Dotcom.

She was appointed Director-General of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service in 2014. She was the first woman to head the organisation. In late 2022, it was announced she would join the Public Service Commission as Deputy Public Service Commissioner from March 2023. That appointment was extended in January 2024. Kitteridge finally joined the Public Service Commission in April 2024 when a permanent secretary for DPMC was appointed.

Kitteridge will join the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government as a professor of practice in public policy for a three-year term from November 2025.

Family Kitteridge has a husband and a daughter. In 2017, Kitteridge won the Public Policy Award at the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.