John Scarlett

John Scarlett
John Scarlett ; (spook);
Born	18 August 1948
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Magdalen College (Oxford)
Member of	Franco-British Colloque, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, The Times/Board, Trilateral Commission
	Chief of the SIS
In office
	7 May 2004 - 31 October 2009
Preceded by	Richard Dearlove
Succeeded by	John Sawers
	Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee
In office
	September 2001 - 2004
Preceded by	Peter Ricketts
Succeeded by	William Ehrman
	Director of Security and Public Affairs
In office
	September 2001 - August 2002
Employer	MI6
	Took the job on a week before 9/11.

Sir John McLeod "Dodgy Dossier" Scarlett was appointed Director of Security and Public Affairs (and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee) one week before 9/11. In 2004 he was made head of MI6. He had previously beenand head of the Intelligence and Securities Secretariat in the Cabinet Office. Commenting on his business career, Craig Murray remarked that Scarlett "is synonymous with crooked security operations and personally wrote the notorious dossier of lies on Iraqi WMD".^[1]

MI6 career

A fluent Russian speaker, he joined MI6 in 1970 and during his early career served in Nairobi, Moscow and Paris.

He went on to be in charge of Britain's station in Moscow.^[2]

Full article: Dodgy Dossier

Scarlett chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee from 3 September 2001. In this role he had responsibility for the dodgy dossier on alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction published by the UK Government in September 2002. ^[3]

Scarlett was appoint as 'Strategic Advisor' to Norwegian energy company Statoil in May 2011. ^[4]

In October 2012 Scarlett became one of 3 directors of SC Strategy Ltd, the others being Alexander Carlile and James Arbuthnot.^[1]

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/2016	12 February 2016	14 February 2016	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 52^nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53^rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54^th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55^th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/2020	14 February 2020	16 February 2020	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 56^th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."
Munich Security Conference/2022	18 February 2022	20 February 2022	Germany Munich Bavaria	Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here