Constantine Metreweli
| Constantine Metreweli LinkedIn (Physician) | |
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| Born | Constantine Dobrowolski 1943 |
| Children | Blaise Metreweli |
Father of Blaise Metreweli the next head of MI6 | |
Constantine Metreweli was born Constantine Dobrowolski, the son of Nazi collaborator Konstantin Dobrowolski, in Snovsk in the Nazi-occupied Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1943. He came to England with his mother, Varvara (anglicised to Barbara) Dobrowolski, after the Second World War where she married a new partner, Georgian-born David Metreweli, in Yorkshire in 1947.[1] He took the surname Metreweli from his stepfather. He is the father of Blaise Metreweli who, in June 2025, was appointed to be the next head of the Secret Intelligence Service.[2]
Physician
Metreweli became a physician and a professor in radiology, and was chair of diagnostic radiology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also trained in the British Army, and did a medical residency in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 1985.
Educated in England
In 1999, he was quoted as saying that he "owes everything to his parents and English education."[3]
References
- ↑ "New MI6 head's family history makes her more qualified for role, says Foreign Office after Nazi grandfather revelation"
- ↑ Document:In a plot twist worthy of John le Carré we reveal the grandfather of the brilliant new head of MI6 was a Nazi spy chief
- ↑ "Oxfam Trailwalker: 75-year-old to become the oldest runner 33 years after he first ran the 100km"