Mark Matthews

Biography

Mark Matthews was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Chad from April 2021 until August 2022.

Previously Mark was Deputy Head of Joint Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development (FCO-DFID) North Africa Unit between 2017 to 2020. Prior to this, Mark was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva between 2013 and 2017.

Mark is an Arabist who has combined multilateral work (in Brussels, The Hague, Geneva) with postings to the Middle East (Libya and the United Arab Emirates).

He was Deputy Head of Iran Department in the FCO, working on the Iranian nuclear issue and the UK relationship with Iran between 2010 and 2013, Deputy Special Representative to the National Transitional Council in Libya in late 2011 and Deputy Ambassador to Libya from 2007 to 2010.

He was UK Alternate Representative to the Chemical Weapons Convention in The Hague from 2003 to 2007.

He was Foreign Office Spokesperson for the Middle East and North Africa from 2000 to 2003.

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