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Ken O’Flaherty became His Majesty’s Head of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires ad interim to Myanmar in February 2023. Ken joined the Diplomatic Service in 1996, and has previously represented the UK government in Italy, France, Japan and the EU. Prior...
Mark Kent was British Ambassador to the Argentine Republic from July 2016 to June 2021. He was previously Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand (2012-2016) and Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (2007-2010). He has served in the British...
Sir Nicholas Kay KCMG took up his appointment as COP26 Regional Ambassador for Africa in October 2020. Find out more about COP26 , the 2021 United Nations Climate Conference. Follow Sir Nicholas on Twitter . He has previously served as...
Ken McCallum is the Director General of the Security Service (known as MI5). He is an MI5 officer with experience across the full spectrum of the organisation’s national security and intelligence work. Career Ken was appointed Deputy Director General of...
Kenneth Clarke KC served as Conservative MP for Rushcliffe from June 1970 to December 2019. Education He was educated at Nottingham High School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Political career Kenneth was Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for...
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...
Jon Benjamin was UK Ambassador to Mexico between 2021 and 2024. Jon joined the Diplomatic Service in 1986, and previously represented the British government in Chile, Ghana, Turkey, Indonesia, and the United States, during his 35-year career. Before his role...
Kenneth was first appointed to the Charity Commission’s Board in 2018. He has extensive expertise and experience in all aspects of charity law and the regulation of charities. Kenneth is a qualified barrister (Lincoln’s Inn, called 1977) and holds a...
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...
Stephen Conlon was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Turkmenistan in May 2023. Prior to this, he studied Russian language full time. Stephen started his career in 1999 as the Desk Officer in the Economic Policy Department in the FCO. Since...
Edward Llewellyn (Lord Llewellyn of Steep) was appointed British Ambassador to Italy in February 2022. Ed was British Ambassador to France from November 2016 to August 2021. Before joining the Embassy, he was the Downing Street Chief of Staff to...
Mr James Hooley OBE has been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Cuba in succession to Sir George Hollingbery KCMG.
Dr Peter Abbott has been a member of the Diplomatic Service since 2005. Before becoming British Consul General to New England in 2020, he served as Counsellor at the British High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan, with operational oversight of the...
James Roscoe was appointed Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy Washington in July 2022. Before moving to Washington he was the UK Ambassador to the UN General Assembly from 2019. Prior to this, from 2016 to 2019 he...
Antony Stokes was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Cuba from October 2016 to January 2022. Previously he served as Ambassador-at-Large for Climate, and from 2010-2014 as Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, a period which saw a...
Prior to arriving in DC, Karen Pierce was the United Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York since March 2018. Prior to this role, Karen served as the Director General for Political Affairs and Chief Operating Officer...
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...
Nick Kennedy has worked for the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office for over fifteen years. He became Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Santiago in July 2022. Previous postings include Cyprus and the British Overseas Territories...
George Hodgson has been the British Ambassador to Colombia since September 2022. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2002. He has previously served in Dakar, Washington, Kabul, Islamabad, Brussels and London. Date Role September 2022 Bogotá, HM Ambassador...
Stephen Hickey was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Iraq in September 2019. Prior to this appointment, he was the Ambassador and Political Co-ordinator in the UK Permanent Mission to the United Nations. Stephen joined the FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)...
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