GCHQ 17th director.
Anne Keast-Butler to be first female director at GCHQ
Anne Keast-Butler helped to launch the national cyber security programme
GCHQ has appointed a female director for the first time in its 104-year history.
Anne Keast-Butler, who is currently serving as deputy director general at MI5, will take up the post running the UK's intelligence service next month.
She will succeed Sir Jeremy Fleming who announced in January he would be stepping down after six years.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly described Ms Keast-Butler as the "ideal candidate to lead GCHQ".
Ms Keast-Butler, who had previously worked for GCHQ as the head of counter-terrorism and serious organised crime, said she was "delighted" to become the organisation's 17th director.
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