Press release

Change of British High Commissioner to India in spring 2020

Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of India in succession to Sir Dominic Asquith KCMG.

• From: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Published: 6 February 2020

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of India in succession to Sir Dominic Asquith KCMG. Sir Philip will take up his appointment during Spring 2020.

Curriculum vitae

Full name: Philip Barton

2020	Cabinet Office, Director General, Covid-19 Response
2017 to 2020	FCO, Director General, Consular and Security
2016 to 2017	Cabinet Office, Acting Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee
2016	Cabinet Office, Director General of Prime Minister’s Anti-Corruption Summit and also Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies
2014 to 2016	Pakistan, British High Commissioner
2011 to 2013	USA, Deputy Head of Mission
2009 to 2011	Cabinet Office, Director, Foreign Policy and Afghanistan/Pakistan Co-ordinator
2008 to 2009	FCO, Additional Director, South Asia
2005 to 2008	Gibraltar, Deputy Governor
2000 to 2004	Nicosia, Deputy High Commissioner
1997 to 2000	No 10, Private Secretary to Prime Minister Tony Blair
1997	No 10, Private Secretary to Prime Minister John Major
1994 to 1996	New Delhi, First Secretary – External
1993 to 1994	FCO, Head of Institutions Section, EU Internal Department
1991 to 1993	Cabinet Office, Assessments Staff
1987 to 1991	Caracas, Third, later Second, Secretary – Chancery
1987	FCO, Assistant Desk Officer, Economic Relations Department

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Published 6 February 2020