Rebecca Kitteridge
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Bill English (2016–17)
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Rebecca Kitteridge | |
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.jpg) Kitteridge in 2010 (wearing the badge of the secretary and registrar of the Order of New Zealand) | |
| 7th Director-General of Security | |
| In office May 2014 – March 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | John Key (2014–16) Bill English (2016–17) Jacinda Ardern (2017–2023) Chris Hipkins (2023) |
| Preceded by | Warren Tucker |
| Succeeded by | Phil McKee (acting) |
| 17th Secretary of the Cabinet | |
| In office 26 March 2008 – November 2013 | |
| Prime Minister | Helen Clark (2008) John Key (2008–14) |
| Preceded by | Diane Morcom |
| Succeeded by | Michael Webster |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1964 or 1965 (age 60–61) |
Rebecca Lucy Kitteridge CVO (born c. 1965) is a New Zealand public servant currently serving as Deputy Public Service Commissioner.
She was Secretary of the Cabinet from 2008 to November 2013,[1][2] Director-General of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service from 2014 to 2023,[3][4] and acting chief executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from 2023 to 2024.
Kitteridge attended Upper Hutt College, and is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington.[5] Her early career was in private legal practice before holding positions at the Crown Law Office, Cabinet Office and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.[4]
She was Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet from 2003 to 2008 and Secretary of the Cabinet from March 2008 to November 2013.[1][2] During the last six months of this time she was seconded to the GCSB as acting associate director-general to carry out a review of compliance systems and processes there, in response to concerns of illegal spying on Kim Dotcom.[6][7][8]
She was appointed Director-General of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service in 2014. She was the first woman to head the organisation.[9] In late 2022, it was announced she would join the Public Service Commission as Deputy Public Service Commissioner from March 2023.[4] Instead, however, she was seconded to act as chief executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) in March 2023.[10][11] That appointment was extended in January 2024.[12] Kitteridge finally joined the Public Service Commission in April 2024 when a permanent secretary for DPMC was appointed.[13]
Kitteridge will join the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government as a professor of practice in public policy for a three-year term from November 2025.[14][15][16]