Nigel Norman Inkster CMG (born April 1956)[1][2] is the former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6),[3][4] and was until June 2017 the Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
He assists with IISS research that assesses the geopolitical and technological challenges posed by China.
[5][6][7][8] Inkster was educated at Oxford and joined SIS in 1975, for which he served in posts in Kuala Lumpur, Athens, Buenos Aires, Bangkok, Beijing, and Hong Kong.
[9] In 2014, Inkster argued that the UK should not take part in direct military action in Syria, although supporting rebel forces was sensible.
Since August 2017 he has been Director of Geopolitical and Intelligence Analysis at London-based Enodo Economics [10]