Ajay Sharma CMG
Biography
Mr Ajay Sharma was appointed Chargé d’Affaires ad Interim to the Republic of Türkiye in July 2022.
Ajay was previously UK Cyprus Settlement Coordinator from 2021 to 2022, after serving as Deputy Political Director. He served as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the State of Qatar from 2015 to 2020.
Ajay earlier served as the Iran Coordinator in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) and in the UK team which negotiated the Iran nuclear deal. He reopened the British Embassy in Tehran in August 2015. Ajay has had previous diplomatic postings in Ankara, Moscow and Paris.
Ajay was appointed a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in 2016.
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Curriculum vitae
| 2021 to 2022 | FCDO, UK Cyprus Settlement Coordinator |
| 2020 to 2021 | FCDO, Deputy Political Director |
| 2015 to 2020 | Doha, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Qatar |
| 2012 to 2015 | FCO Iran Coordinator, followed by non-resident, then resident Chargé d’affaires to Iran |
| 2008 to 2012 | Paris, Deputy Ambassador to France |
| 2007 to 2008 | Tehran, Deputy Ambassador to Iran |
| 2007 | Language training (Farsi) |
| 2005 to 2007 | FCO, Deputy Head of Security Policy Department |
| 2003 to 2005 | Ankara, Head of Political Section |
| 2002 to 2003 | Moscow, Head of Economic Section |
| 2001 to 2002 | Language training (Russian) |
| 2000 to 2001 | Secondment to Her Majesty’s Treasury |
| 1997 to 2000 | Ankara, Second Secretary Political |
| 1996 to 1997 | Language training (Turkish) |
| 1995 to 1996 | FCO, Desk Officer Hungary and Slovakia, European Department |