Jonathan Evans joined the Public Interest Committee on 23 March 2017 and became its Chair on 1 October 2019. Jonathan was Director General of MI5 from 2007 to his retirement in 2013, having spent his career in the UK Security Service. From 2013 to 2019 he was a Non-Executive Director of HSBC Holdings and between 2018 – 2023 he was the Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. Jonathan is currently a Non-Executive Director of Ark Data Centres Limited, an advisor to several small tech companies and Chairman of The HALO Trust. Jonathan also became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Institute of Business Ethics in January 2024.