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Alastair Morgan was the British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from December 2015 until December 2018. Alastair served as Consul-General, British Consulate-General Guangzhou, from 2010 to 2014, havin…

Alastair Peoples was the Chief Executive of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency ( DVSA ) from its creation on 1 April 2014 to October 2015. He retired from the Civil Service in October 2015. Career Alastair was Chief Exe…

Alastair Pitblado was the Official Solicitor to the Senior Courts (appointed November 2006) and the Public Trustee (appointed October 2016). Although Alastair held both statutory offices, they remain legally separate. Alasta…

Alastair is a Chartered Accountant and was a partner for 24 years in Deloitte LLP and predecessor partnerships, specialising in corporate finance. During much of his career he has specialised in the nuclear industry. He led …

Alec Pybus joined the Insolvency Service in September 2016 This is Alec’s first Government role, having previously worked as an Operations Director at Royal Mail during a period of modernisation and transformation.

Alec was appointed as a non-executive director of the SIA in February 2020. He was appointed as Deputy Chair in November 2021. Career Alec was previously the Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Constabulary, retiring in 2018 a…

Alex Aiken is an Executive Director for Government Communication. He was appointed in December 2012 and was responsible for creating the Government Communication Service (GCS) and developing cross-government campaigns. He se…

Alex Bamford is the Deputy High Commissioner at the British High Commission in Singapore. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director for International Affairs in the Cabinet Office. His previous roles have included serving as Pri…

Alex Burghart was Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office between 27 October 2022 and 5 July 2024. He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions from 20 September 20…

Alex Davies-Jones was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice on 9 July 2024. She was elected as the MP for Pontypridd in July 2024.

Sir Alex Ellis was appointed as His Majesty’s Ambassador to Spain and Andorra in September 2024.  Previously, Alex served as the British High Commissioner to the Republic of India (2021 to 2024) and before that, he worked as…

Alex Hynes was appointed Director General Rail Services Group in the Department for Transport ( DfT ) on 1 April 2024. Alex is an experienced transport professional with over 25 years of industry experience and a proven trac…

Alex Jones was appointed as Ofsted’s Director, Insights and Research in March 2022. He was previously Head of Evidence and Transformation at 10 Downing Street from 2020 to 2022, following 10 years working at the Department f…

Alex Maclean joined the FCDO in 2015, and has worked in Bangladesh and Nigeria, latterly as Counsellor – Lake Chad Basin. Prior to joining the FCDO, Alex worked extensively for international NGOs in East Africa, South and So…

Alex Mitham was Deputy Governor of the Falkland Islands until May 2021. He arrived in the Falklands in January 2017, having previously been the Administrator on Tristan da Cunha; in addition to the Foreign, Commonwealth &amp…

Alex Naqvi has been Deputy Head of Mission to Luxembourg since January 2018. He started his career with the Foreign Office in 2008. He served in Brussels as 2nd Secretary Political, where he covered portfolios including just…

Alex Norris was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on 9 July 2024. He has been the MP for Nottingham North and Kimberley (and its predecessor Notting…

Alex Pinfield OBE was the British Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan from April to October 2021. He has been in the Diplomatic Service for over 20 years, with a career focussed on China and Asia, and the Middle East. His previ…

Alex Reeves is a Non-Executive Member of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Board. Alex is a Director at UK Government Investments (UKGI), where he currently leads on inward Mergers and Acquisitions and other corpor…

Alex van Someren was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security in July 2021. Alex was previously a venture capital investor and entrepreneur, focusing on investing in early stage ‘deep technology’ startups. He…

Alex Younger is the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (known as MI6). He was appointed in November 2014. He is a career MI6 officer and has been in the service since 1991. MI6 career Alex has had overseas postings in …

Alexander Ehmann is currently the Head of UK Public Affairs for TATA Ltd. He previously worked as Head of Government and Parliamentary Affairs at the Institute of Directors (IoD) and also Head of Regulation and Employment Po…

Alex joined Dstl in 2002, initially working across a number of groups in Land Battlespace Systems ( LBSD ), He spent the following few years based across Dstl , BAE Systems and Defence Equipment and Support ( DE&S ). Rec…

Alexander ‘Mac’ MacGill joined Dounreay in October 2018 having spent the 3 years as the principle consultant and director of an executive management consultancy. Previously, he enjoyed a diverse military career spanning comm…

Alexandra Cole was appointed Deputy Head of Mission to Georgia in April 2018. Curriculum Vitae April 2018 Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Tbilisi Apr 2016 - Mar 2018 Counsellor Migration and Protracted Crises, UK Mis…

Alexandra Elson joined Export Guarantees Advisory Council ( EGAC ) in July 2011. Alexandra is Senior Stakeholder Relations Adviser at Shell. Before joining Shell, she was natural resources adviser at the Department for Inter…

Alexandra Gaunt was appointed Deputy Head of Mission to Moldova in January 2018.She also holds the role as HM Consul. Curriculum Vitae 2016 Brussels, Chancery 2015 FCO, Counter Terrorism Department 2013 - 2015 FCO, Minister …

Alexandra Gowlland has been the Deputy Director of the Disability Unit in the Cabinet Office since March 2023.  She joined the Civil Service in 2011, and previously worked in the Cabinet Office, Government Equalities Office,…

2013 Tbilisi Her Majesty’s Ambassador 2011 to 2013 maternity leave 2009 to 2011 Bogota, Deputy Head of Mission 2007 to 2008 maternity leave 2006 to 2007 New Delhi, Counsellor and Head of Political Section 2004 to 2006 FCO, H…

Alexandra Jones is the Director General for Science, Innovation and Growth at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology ( DSIT ). Alexandra was Director for Science, Research and Innovation at the Department for …

Alex joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2002, and has spent her career focusing on Europe and Asia, with postings to Beijing, Paris, Berlin, Singapore and Bangkok. Curriculum vitae Dates Role Januar…

Alexandra Needham joined the FCO in 2004. Her Foreign Office career has to date covered Asia (with a particular focus on China) and Latin America. Her previous overseas posting was as Political Consul at the British Consulat…

Alexandra Notay is an internationally recognised expert on housing, placemaking and ESG. She has 20 years’ strategic advisory and investment experience having worked extensively across four continents. In August 2024 Alex to…

Alex Smith was appointed as Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City and Trade Director for Vietnam in July 2024. Ahead of taking up her appointment, Alex was the UK’s first Trade and Economic Counsellor to the Association of Sout…

Alexia was appointed Director of Marketing in 2020 and has been with PHE since its inception. Whilst at PHE, Alexia has led a number of highly successful, flagship social marketing campaigns including: Change4Life, which enc…

Ali Johnson has worked within the Civil Service since September 1984 working in various departments, Ministry Of Defence, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food - now the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affai…

Alice M. Greenwald is Director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum and Executive Vice-President for Exhibitions, Collections & Education, having overseen the articulation and implementation of a vision for the museum, directing …

Alice was the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Israel from May 2022 to January 2023. She joined the Diplomatic Service in 2009 following an undergraduate and Masters at the University of Nottingham. In London…

Alicia Herbert OBE is the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office ( FCDO ) Director of Education, Gender and Equalities and the UK’s Special Envoy for Gender Equality. Previously Alicia worked in academia, the World Bank…

Alisdair Walker was the British Ambassador to Eritrea from February 2019 to November 2022. Before that, Alisdair was the Head of China Internal Team in East Asia Department at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Offi…

Alishba Khaliq was appointed Deputy Head of Mission to Conakry, Guinea in August 2022. Alishba joined the Civil Service in 2015 and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in 2018. During her FCDO career sh…

Alison Baptiste is the Director of Public and Security Services at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. Alison has extensive strategic and operational project and programme leadership experience gained both in private …

Alison joined the team in the British Embassy Tallinn in July 2017. She is a career diplomat having joined the Diplomatic Service in 1990. During her career Alison has served in a variety of overseas posts, most recently as …

Alison Blackburne is the UK’s Special Envoy for the Red Sea and Horn of Africa, starting in this role in May 2024. Alison was the British Ambassador to South Sudan from April 2017 to May 2019, and before that British High Co…

Alison Blake was appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands and Her Majesty’s Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in March 2022. A career diplomat, Alison has considerable experience in South Asia a…

Alison Chick moved to Armenia in June 2017 with her husband, Chris. She has served in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at home and overseas. Most recently she worked in London in the Eastern European and Central Asia Dire…

Alison is a career diplomat, she was Deputy Governor to Bermuda from 2018 to 2022. Previously, she was in London as head of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s (FCO’s) Anti-Corruption Team. Before that, she spent 8 years…

Alison Cross was Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Panama City from 2016 to 2022. A career diplomat, Alison joined the Foreign Office in 2009, initially serving as a policy officer covering a range of roles in…