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Mr Graham Zebedee was UK Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 2015 to 2017. Mr Zebedee joined the FCO in 1999. His career has covered a wide range of roles, including working on Africa, Afghanistan, EU, security,...
Janet was appointed as Regional Ambassador for the Middle East and Africa in March 2021. Janet joined the FCO (now FCDO) in 1986. She has served in the Far East, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa, and has worked...
Melinda Simmons was His Majesty’s Ambassador to Ukraine until August 2023. She was first appointed to this role in September 2019. Curriculum vitae Dates Role 2018 to 2019 Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), Full-time Language Training (Ukrainian) 2017 to 2018...
Where they are born in the UK and how FCO ensures English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish representation in our embassies abroad
Ms Melanie Hopkins arrived in Brazil as Deputy Head of Mission in July 2021 and took on the role of Chargé d’Affaires (Acting Ambassador) from March to November 2022. Her previous role was as British High Commissioner to Fiji (and...
At a ceremony at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Tokyo on 23 January 2024, Julia Longbottom, the British Ambassador to Japan, presented Mr Tsukamoto Takashi, Chairman of the Japan-British Society, with the award of Honorary Member of the Most Excellent...
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Mr Timothy Smart was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Uzbekistan, in succession to Mr Timothy Torlot, who has retired from the Diplomatic Service. He took up his appointment in August 2023. Curriculum vitae Year Role 2018 to...
David McIlroy took up his appointment as Chargé d’Affaires of the British Embassy, Asmara in Eritrea in April 2024. David was previously Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Guinea from 2019 to 2022. He was United Kingdom Deputy Permanent Representative to the...
Mr Leigh Turner CMG, was UK Ambassador to the Republic of Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna from September 2016 to September 2021. Leigh´s previous role was HM Consul General Istanbul and Director General for...
Ambassador James Kariuki assumed the role of UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, New York in August 2021. He previously served as Multilateral Policy Director at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from 2018 to 2021 where he was...
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...
David Slinn became the United Kingdom’s seventh ambassador to Croatia in April 2012. Previously, he was the first British Ambassador to North Korea. David has spent a major part of his career in South East Europe. After six months in...
Mel Barlow became His Majesty’s Ambassador to Laos in September 2023. Mel was most recently Deputy Ambassador in Kathmandu (2022 to 2023). She joined the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2002 and has previous postings to Tokyo (2005 to...
Jonathan Knight was appointed as Deputy Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates in August 2023. Originally from Berkshire in the south of England, he read Politics and International Relations at Aberdeen University before joining the Royal Air Force, serving at...
Philip (Phil) Batson was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova from April 2013 to September 2016. Phil joined Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service in 1987. His first posting overseas was an Immigration Attaché at the British Deputy High Commission...
Graham Styles has been the British Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea since September 2011. Graham is a career diplomat, who has held a range of appointments, including postings to Vienna, Paris and Mauritius. Graham has a BA (Hons) degree...
Duncan John Rushworth Taylor CBE is the appointed Ambassador to Mexico and arrived in country in October 2013. Duncan Taylor was Governor in Grand Cayman from 2010 to 2013. He was born in England in 1958 and began his service...
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office British High Commissioner to Jamaica, August 2017 to August 2021 British Ambassador to the Philippines and Palau, July 2013 to July 2017 British Ambassador to Thailand and Laos, 2010 to 2012 Head of South East...
Denis Keefe has been Ambassador to Serbia since June 2014, following 3 years as Ambassador to Georgia, and 4 years as Minister and Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow. Denis joined the UK Foreign Office in 1982. At the British...
Mr Neerav Patel is His Majesty’s Ambassador to the State of Qatar since January 2024. He has extensive senior diplomatic experience in the Middle East and South Asia, including tours in Egypt, Israel and Afghanistan including as Charge d’Affaires in...
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