Who’s who at the Inquiry
The following pages give details of the membership of the Inquiry and about its advisers and secretariat.
The Committee:
Sir John Chilcot (Chairman)
Advisers:
On 13 October the committee announced that it had appointed two advisers to help it conduct its work.
General Sir Roger Wheeler, the former Chief of the General Staff, will assist the committee on military matters.
Dame Rosalyn Higgins, the former President of the International Court of Justice, will advise on international law.
Secretariat:
Little is known so far about the Inquiry’s secretariat. The Secretary to the Inquiry is Margaret Aldred, who is on secondment from the Cabinet Office, where she is Director-General (Deputy Head) of the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat. According to the Inquiry:
“Ms Aldred joined the Civil Service as a graduate trainee in 1975. She spent 25 years in the Ministry of Defence, where she worked in a wide range of areas, including three years as the Principal Private Secretary to the Defence Secretary. Her last post in the MoD was Director General Management and Organisation. She has also worked in HM Treasury and the Home Office, and took up her current post in the Cabinet Office in November 2004.
Ms Aldred was appointed CBE in the 1991 Gulf Honours list, and CB in the 2009 New Years Honours list.”
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