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Mr Damion Potter was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Panama 2017 to 2021. Prior to this, Damion was Deputy Representative and Director of International Trade in Taipei. Previous postings include Moscow and Sweden. Damion holds a Masters degree...
In March 2024, Nikesh (Nik) Mehta was appointed as the new British High Commissioner to Singapore. He will start his posting in July 2024. Prior to this, Nik served from 2022 to 2024 as the Director for Policy and Requirements...
Bryony Mathew was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Iceland in August 2021. She joined HM Diplomatic Service in 2005, and has served in London, Bangalore, Beijing and Phnom Penh. Prior to joining the service, Bryony studied Experimental Psychology at University...
Career at Foreign and Commonwealth Office Present British Ambassador to Indonesia 2009-11 British Ambassador to Zimbabwe 2006-09 British Ambassador to Burma / Myanmar 2001-05 Deputy High Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur 1997–01 Personnel Management Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1993-97 First Secretary,...
Andrew Dalgleish LLB took up the position of Deputy High Commissioner in the British High Commission in Pakistan in July 2022. Prior to that he spent a year in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in London working on Gibraltar’s...
Ambassador Cowell expressed his condolences for the death of a LAF soldier in Lebanon and called for restoring calm on the Blue Line.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Colin Martin-Reynolds is the Director for Organisational Improvement at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Colin was the British Ambassador to Colombia from September 2019 to July 2022. A career diplomat, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1990....
Andrew Heyn OBE, British Consul General to Hong Kong and Macao, took office in October 2016. Andrew joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 1989 and served in Caracas, Lisbon and Dublin before his most recent overseas posting as...
Jonathan Brenton holds the post of Minister Counsellor (Prosperity) at the British Embassy in Moscow. Biography May 2015 – Minister Counsellor, Prosperity, British Embassy in Moscow 2014 – 2015 – FCO Communications Directorate (including public campaigns) 2010 – 2014 –...
Ben Fender was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia from February 2019 to February 2021. Prior to this, he was Head of the Security Policy Department at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office from 2016 to 2019....
Dr Carole Crofts was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Republic of Azerbaijan in May 2016. Curriculum Vitae Full name: Carole Mary Crofts Children: One son & one daughter 2015 – 2016 Language training 2012 – 2015 UK Trade & Investment,...
Ms Lucy Joyce OBE was appointed British High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Tonga in January 2021. Previously Lucy was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova from 2016 to 2019. Lucy was Acting High Commissioner to Zambia from...
Acting Ambassador Rebecca Jane Razavi 2010 – Present Deputy Head of Mission and Consul General to Indonesia and Timor Leste 2008-2010 Deputy Head of Mission and Consul General to Sudan 2006-2008 First Secretary (Security) UK Representation to the EU, Brussels...
Ross was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Estonia in June 2021. Prior to that he served in a variety of roles within the UK civil service and on secondment to the private sector. Ross speaks Arabic and some German and...
Tiffany Sadler was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia in September 2020. Previously she was Director of the Tech Overhaul Programme in the FCO and was Deputy Head of Mission, Tbilisi from 2016 to 2018. Curriculum vitae...
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Ms Catherine Brooker was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire in January 2021. Curriculum Vitae Full name: Catherine Brooker Year Role 2016 to present FCDO, Head Whitehall Nigeria Unit and Deputy Head of West Africa Department...
Ms Davidson joined the FCO in 1986 and has served in Honduras (based in Guatemala City) Tokyo, Brussels, Bonn, Bangkok and Bratislava. She was joint British High Commissioner to Zambia, with her husband Tom Carter, from 2008 – 2012 and...
Dame Judith Macgregor was the British High Commissioner to South Africa from September 2013 until March 2017. After graduating from Oxford (LMH) with a first class degree in Modern History, and a year in Romania as a British Council scholar,...
Dame Menna Rawlings was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the French Republic in August 2021. Previously Menna was the Director-General Economic and Global Issues at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) from March 2019 until August 2020. In...
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