Daniel Shepherd

Biography

Daniel was the Deputy High Commissioner to Jamaica from September 2020 to September 2024.

His previous postings include New Delhi and Hanoi, as well as serving as First Secretary and Spokesperson and Head of Press and Communications at the UK Mission to the UN in New York, and most recently in Pretoria as Consular Regional Director for Sub Saharan Africa.

His assignments in the UK have included Deputy Head of the Counter Proliferation Department, Head of the UN political team and, most recently, Head of Airlines and Assessments in the Repatriation Taskforce, which was formed to help British travellers get home when Coronavirus impacted on international travel options.

Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with Linguistics (First Class) from the University of Sussex.