Sir Iain Macleod GCMG

Biography

Sir Iain Macleod GCMG was the Legal Adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office until March 2022, and was previously the Legal Adviser at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

Iain Macleod was admitted as a solicitor in 1987 and since then has held positions in a number of government departments. At the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, he worked at the UK Representation to the EC and at the UK Mission to the UN, and was seconded to the Attorney General’s Office. Subsequently, he was Deputy Legal Adviser at the Home Office and then Legal Adviser, Central Advisory Division, Treasury Solicitor’s Department, before taking up his present post in 2011. In 2022 he was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.