Sir John Chilcot Hon FBA

Elected 2019

Fellow type
Honorary Fellow
Year of birth
1939
Year of death
2021
Year elected
2019

Six years at Cambridge led to a career in Whitehall, heading the Northern Ireland Office and leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. After Whitehall, with an abiding involvement in contemporary British political history, Sir Chilcot led a series of independent government-commissioned inquiries, notably the Iraq War Inquiry, published in 12 volumes in 2016.

Last post

Former Permanent Secretary, Chair of inquiry into Iraq war

Sign up to our email newsletters