Blaise Metreweli
British civil servant and intelligence officer
Blaise Florence Metreweli (born 30 July 1977) is a British intelligence officer and civil servant, currently Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), following the retirement of Sir Richard Moore. She is the first female chief of MI6.
Early life and education
Blaise Florence Metreweli was born on 30 July 1977. She, together with her siblings, spent part of her childhood in Hong Kong. She left Cheltenham Ladies' College in 1993, then attended Westminster School, where she took A-Levels in Russian, economics, history, and art. From 1994 to 1995, Metreweli was captain of Westminster School. She then studied anthropology at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA degree from the University of Cambridge in 1998. At Cambridge, alongside future Olympians Sarah Winckless, Francesca Zino, and Alison Mowbray, she was a member of the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club Blue Boat crew that won the 1997 Women's Boat Race against Oxford University. In the same year, Metreweli was part of the rowing crew that won the headship of the 1997 May Bumps for Pembroke College against other Cambridge college crews.
Family background
Metreweli's father, Constantine Metreweli, was born Constantine Dobrowolski, the son of Nazi collaborator Constantine Dobrowolski, in Snovsk in the Chernigov Oblast of the Nazi-occupied Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1943.
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