Amy Clemitshaw

Biography

Amy was Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy Mexico from April 2019 to July 2023.

Amy has previously served in a number of roles in Government. Prior to her current role, she was Head of Eastern Mediterranean Department in the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). In this capacity she was part of the leadership of the UK’s delegation to the Conference on Cyprus in Switzerland, convened by the UN Secretary General in June 2017.

Before this, she held a senior role in the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change where she helped Ministers deliver an historic commitment to end the use of coal in electricity generation in the UK by 2025, and to bring forward investment in a new generation of cleaner gas and low-carbon electricity infrastructure.

In the FCO Amy has specialised in conflict, security and justice policy. She was part of a cross-Government team that developed proposals, published in the Government’s 2011 Green Paper on Justice and Security, to allow UK courts to hear cases involving the use of sensitive material as evidence without compromising core principles of justice and the rule of law.

Between 2011 and 2013 she led the UK’s human rights policy in multilateral institutions, including overseeing the UK’s successful bid for membership of the UN Human Rights Council in 2013.

She served in the UK’s Embassy in Kabul as First Secretary Political in 2008-2009, and oversaw the UK’s civilian contribution to security and reconstruction in southern Iraq between 2006 and 2008.

Amy has a MA in modern languages and literature from Cambridge University, and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).