Deirdre Brown MBE
Biography
Deirdre Brown is former Deputy Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe based in Vienna. She left post in June 2025.
Deirdre joined the then Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1986 and has served at UK missions in Dhaka, Bangkok, Budapest and at the Delegation to the OECD in Paris. Her roles have included time in a Minister’s Private Office, as desk officer for Afghanistan and as Head of Russia Team. She has also worked on trade promotion, economic cooperation, conventional arms control and international criminal justice. Her most recent role in London was deputy head of United Nations and Multilateral Department.
Deirdre is married with 2 adult children.
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Previous roles in government
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Deputy Head of UK Delegation to the OSCE, Vienna