# Jon Day

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{{Short description|British civil servant}}
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'''Sir Jonathan Stephen Day''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (born 23 April 1954)<ref>{{cite web
|url         = http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U44833
|title       = DAY, Jonathan Stephen
|first       = Jon
|last        = Day
|year        = 2012
|work        = Who's Who 2012, online edition
|publisher   = A & C Black
|accessdate  = 5 March 2012
}}</ref> is a retired [British Civil Servant](/source/British_Civil_Service) lately serving as the Chairman of the [Joint Intelligence Committee](/source/Joint_Intelligence_Committee_(United_Kingdom)) and Head of the [Joint Intelligence Organisation](/source/Joint_Intelligence_Organisation_(United_Kingdom)) at the [Cabinet Office](/source/Cabinet_Office).<ref>{{cite web
| url = https://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/new-chair-joint-intelligence-committee
| title = New Chair for the Joint Intelligence Committee
| publisher = [Cabinet Office](/source/Cabinet_Office)
| date = 2012-03-02
| accessdate = 5 March 2012}}</ref>

Day initially trained as a [solicitor](/source/solicitor), and joined the Civil Service in 1979. During his career, Day worked in the Ministry of Defence, the [Foreign & Commonwealth Office](/source/Foreign_%26_Commonwealth_Office) and the [Cabinet Office](/source/Cabinet_Office), was seconded to [NATO](/source/NATO), and did a year's sabbatical at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University).  Day retired at the end of November 2015, and was replaced by [Charles Farr](/source/Charles_Farr_(civil_servant)) as Chair of the JIC.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Joint Intelligence Committee Chair appointed: Charles Farr – Press releases – GOV.UK|url = https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-intelligence-committee-chair-appointed-charles-farr|website = www.gov.uk|accessdate = 2015-12-13}}</ref>

==Honours==
Day was appointed [Commander of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (CBE) in the [1999 New Year Honours](/source/1999_New_Year_Honours) for his contribution to the [Strategic Defence Review](/source/Strategic_Defence_Review_(1998)) as Director of Defence Policy at the MoD<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/People/SeniorOfficials/SecondPermanentUnderSecretary.htm | title = Second Permanent Under Secretary — Jon Day | publisher = [Ministry of Defence](/source/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom)) | year = 2011 | accessdate = 5 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue = 55354 |date = 30 December 1998 |page=7 |supp = y }}</ref> and was [knighted](/source/Knight_Bachelor) in the [2016 New Year Honours](/source/2016_New_Year_Honours).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61450|supp=y|page=N2|date=30 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=New Year's Honours 2016 list|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/489049/NY2016HonoursFullList.pdf|website=GOV.UK|accessdate=30 December 2015|date=30 December 2015}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Ex-pupil-s-post-MoD/story-11930543-detail/story.html Ex-pupil's top post with MoD – This is Gloucestershire]
* [http://www.nato.int/cv/is/dir-po/day.htm NATO Who's who?: Director Private Office – Jon Day (2001)]

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{{s-ttl|title=Director-General, Security Policy <br /> [Ministry of Defence](/source/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom))|years=2008–2011}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Chair of the <br /> [Joint Intelligence Committee](/source/Joint_Intelligence_Committee_(United_Kingdom))|years=2012–2015}}
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Category:Living people
Category:1954 births
Category:British civil servants
Category:Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Category:Second permanent under-secretaries of state for defence
Category:Civil servants in the Cabinet Office
Category:Chairs of the Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom)
Category:Knights Bachelor
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire

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