Dame Sarah MacIntosh DCMG

Biography

Dame Sarah MacIntosh DCMG was appointed Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs in June 2022.  

Previously she served as the United Kingdom’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to NATO from 2017 to 2022.  

Sarah joined the FCDO in 1991. Previous appointments include Director General, Defence and Intelligence (2014-2017); Director, Defence and International Security (2011-2014); Director, Strategic Finance (2009-2010); Her Majesty’s High Commissioner to Sierra Leone and Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Liberia (2006-2008); and the Strategy Co-ordinator for the UN Mission in Kosovo (2004-2005).

Sarah has also been posted to the UK Mission to the United Nations at New York; the UK Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency at Vienna; and the British Embassy Madrid.

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