Ingrid Southworth
Biography
Ingrid Southworth was Chargée d’Affaires at the UK Joint Delegation to NATO from October 2024 to March 2025.
Ingrid joined the Civil Service in 2002 and has worked in national security and international policy roles in the Cabinet Office, FCDO and Home Office. Most recently, Ingrid was Director of International Affairs in the Cabinet Office (2021-2023). Ingrid served as British Deputy High Commissioner to Australia from 2017-2020 and prior to that in a number of roles in the Home Office including on organised crime and counter-terrorism.
Her first jobs in the Civil Service were in the Cabinet Office on digital policy issues and as Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary for Government Communication. She worked in the FCO from 2006-2009 on European issues. Before joining the Civil Service, Ingrid worked for Moreover Technologies and for Associated Press in Rome.
Ingrid studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University and International Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Italy. Ingrid is married and has two children.
Previous roles in government
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UK Permanent Representative to NATO
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Deputy High Commissioner, Canberra