Eliza Manningham-Buller

The Right Honourable The Baroness Manningham-Buller LG DCB
Official Portrait, 2022
Chancellor of the Order of the Garter
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 June 2024
Monarch	Charles III
Preceded by	The Duke of Abercorn
Director-General of MI5
In office 7 October 2002 – 8 April 2007
Home Sec.	David Blunkett Charles Clarke John Reid
Preceded by	Stephen Lander
Succeeded by	Jonathan Evans
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 June 2008 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	Elizabeth Lydia Manningham-Buller (1948-07-14) 14 July 1948 (age 76) Northampton, England
Parent(s)	Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne Lady Mary Lindsay
Relatives	The Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (first cousin)
Alma mater	Northampton High School Benenden School Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Occupation	Peer
Profession	Intelligence Officer
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch/service	MI5
Years of service	1974–2007
Rank	Director General of MI5
Battles/wars	Investigation of Lockerbie bombing
Awards	Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath
Eliza Manningham-Buller's voice Recorded September 2011 from the BBC Radio 4 programme the Reith Lectures

Elizabeth Lydia Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller, LG, DCB (born 14 July 1948) is a retired British intelligence officer. She worked as a teacher for three years before joining MI5, the British internal Security Service. She led the newly created Irish counter-terrorism section from 1992 and then became director in charge of surveillance and technical operations. She became Director General of MI5 in October 2002 and, in that capacity, led the Security Service's response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Following her retirement in April 2007, she became a crossbench life peer in 2008.^[1]

She became chair of the Conduct Committee, which is a select committee of the House of Lords, on 19 January 2022. As of 2020, she is listed as #86 in Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women.^[2] She was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Garter by King Charles III in June 2024, becoming the first woman to hold the position.^[3]