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  • Former Head Girl, Anne Keast-Butler, AG66, appointed Director of GCHQ, May 2023

    Former Head Girl, Anne Keast-Butler, appointed Director of GCHQ

    The School was delighted to see former Head Girl, Anne Keast-Butler, appointed as Director of GCHQ in May 2023, succeeding Sir Jeremy Fleming as the seventeenth holder of this role.

    Anne Keast-Butler, former Head Girl of the Perse School for Girls, is the Director of GCHQ with a career in national security including as Deputy Director General Mi5. She is Honorary Colonel of the Joint Service Signal Regiment, an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford (where she read maths after her time at the Perse School for Girls), and a champion for women in STEM