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Dr David Ellis was appointed as the British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in December 2021. Previous roles 2016 to 2020: Minister and Deputy Head of Mission to Japan. Responsibilities included advancing UK-Japan relations on political and...
Full name: Edward Oakden CMG Married to: Dr Florence Eid Children: Three daughters 2013 - 2015 FCO, Director Middle East 2012 – 2013 Strategic Trade UKTI, Managing Director 2010 - 2012 Sectors Group, UKTI Managing Director 2006 - 2010 Abu...
James Squire took up his post as His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation and non-resident Ambassador to the Principality of Liechtenstein in January 2023. Before joining the Embassy, he was Head of North East Asia and Pacific Department (2019...
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 and has helped shape British foreign...
At a ceremony at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Tokyo on 14 November 2023, Julia Longbottom, the British Ambassador to Japan, presented Mr Shiozaki Yasuhisa, former Co-Chair of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group, with the award of Honorary Member of...
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Dominic joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2006 after training as a barrister and five years in law enforcement. His first job was in the British Embassy Tehran as an Immigration Liaison Officer (2006 to 2008), before spending two...
Stephanie Al-Qaq was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil in November 2022. Previously she was the Iran Envoy and Director of Iran and Regional Security at the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). Before that, Stephanie...
Sir Dominick Chilcott is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1982. He has served as: High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Maldives (2006 to 2007) Deputy Ambassador to the United States (2008 to 2011) Ambassador...
Greg Dorey was appointed British Ambassador to Ethiopia and Djibouti (non-resident) and Permanent Representative to the African Union and UN Economic Commission for Africa in 2010. Most recently he has been serving as British Ambassador to Hungary from 2007-2010. Before...
Dr Tibber was British Ambassador to Colombia from 2015 - 2019. He joined the FCO in 1984 after completing a doctorate in medieval history at Oxford University. Dr Tibber has been posted to Sudan, France, Turkey, Mexico, Germany and Pakistan....
Juliette John was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republics of Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde in April 2022 (responsibility for Cabo Verde moved to British Embassy Lisbon in February 2024). Prior to this appointment she was the Development Director...
Sir Simon McDonald was the Permanent Under Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office August 2015 to August 2020. Sir Simon joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1982 and served in Berlin, Jeddah, Riyadh,...
Wasim Mir took up his post as Deputy Head of Mission in Brazil in June 2014. Since January 2017 he acts as a Chargé d’Affaires till the new British Ambassador to Brazil presents credentials. Wasim joined the Foreign and Commonwealth...
UKMis Brussels senior team.
Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina and TRIAL International hosted the conceptual artist Alketa Xhafa Mripa who uses her art to draw attention to the reality of sexual violence in conflict.
Simon Manley, CMG took up his post as the United Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization, United Nations and other International Organisations based in Geneva in April 2021. Simon oversees the work of the UK Mission in Geneva...
Keith has been Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in The Hague since August 2023. Prior to his posting in the Netherlands he was Minister Counsellor at the British Embassy in Kyiv. Keith joined the UK Foreign and...
Susanna Moorehead was the British Ambassador to Ethiopia and Djibouti (non-resident) and Permanent Representative to the African Union and UN Economic Commission for Africa from January 2016 until January 2019. Prior to her service as Ambassador to Ethiopia, Ms. Moorehead...
On 15 April 2012, Sir Richard Stagg took up the position of British Ambassador to Afghanistan, replacing Sir William Patey. Sir Richard Stagg was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford where he read history. On joining the Foreign...
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