Ian Millar
Biography
Ian Millar is the Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organisations in Vienna. He took up the role in September 2025.
He has served in a range of overseas and UK roles working across international and nation security policy and international development, with cross‑government experience including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Department for International Development (DFID), and a secondment to the UK Border Agency in the Home Office.
Ian has previously been posted to the UK Joint Delegation to NATO in Brussels, the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York, and as Deputy Development Director in Uganda. He was most recently Head of Strategy, Operations and Performance in the Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and before that Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary in DFID.
In 2021, Ian completed postgraduate studies in international security and strategy at the UK’s Royal College of Defence Studies. He holds an MA (Hons) in Politics and an MSc in Political Communication from the University of Glasgow.
Originally from Glasgow, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2007.
Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna
The Deputy Head of Mission is a senior diplomat and typically a key advisor to the Ambassador or High Commissioner. The Deputy is responsible for the daily management of an overseas Embassy or High Commission. They will represent the UK’s interests in the absence of the Ambassador as Chargé d’Affaires. A senior ranking Deputy may also take the title Minister. Smaller missions may not have a Deputy Head.