Background
Younger was born on 4 July 1963.
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Alex Younger
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He was educated at Marlborough College and graduated from university with a degree in economics.
Career
Military service
Younger was sponsored by the British Army through university. He was commissioned into the Royal Scots on 5 September 1986 as a second lieutenant (on probation). As a University Candidate he was a full time student at university and trained in his spare time.
On 10 December 1986, he transferred to the Scots Guards.
On 16 June 1987, his commission was confirmed and dated to 5 September 1986: this signified the start of his full-time military service. He was granted seniority in the rank of second lieutenant from 9 April 1983.
He was promoted to lieutenant, which was back dated to 5 September 1986, and was granted seniority from 9 April 1985. He was promoted to captain on 5 April 1989 and transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 10 April 1990.
Intelligence work
Younger joined SIS in 1991.
After serving in the Middle East and Afghanistan, he became head of counter-intelligence in 2009, in which role he was involved in security for the London Olympics 2012, and then became Deputy Director in 2012 before being nominated as Chief in October 2014. In a leaked list of 160 MI6 agents - which was originally believed to have been released by Richard Tomlinson, although government officials subsequently "acknowledged that the list did not come from Mr Tomlinson" - Alex Younger is mentioned as having been posted to Vienna in 1995. As of 2015, Younger was paid a salary of between £160,000 and £164,999 by SIS, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
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