Robert Chatterton Dickson

Biography

Robert Chatterton Dickson was Chargé d’Affaires of the UK Mission to Afghanistan from July 2023 to June 2025.

Robert was previously British High Commissioner to Bangladesh from 2019 to 2023, and Director in the National Security Secretariat in the Cabinet Office from 2015 to 2018.

Robert was Deputy Ambassador and Chargé d’Affaires in Kabul from 2013 to 2015. He was HM Consul General in Chicago from 2010 to 2013 and HM Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia from 2004 to 2007.

Robert has also served in the British Embassies in Washington and Manila and worked in London on issues including counter terrorism, UN Peacekeeping, NATO, Iraq, and arms export policy.

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Previous roles in government

• Chargé d'Affaires ad Interim, UK Mission to Afghanistan (in Doha, Qatar)
  • 2023 to 2025
• British High Commissioner to Bangladesh
  • 2019 to 2023
• British Ambassador to Afghanistan
  • 2015 to 2015
• British Consul General in Chicago
  • 2010 to 2013

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• British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson's speech to Dhaka Reporters’ Unity
  • 20 February 2022
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• Diplomatic Correspondent Association of Bangladesh (DCAB) Talk 2019: speech by Robert Chatterton Dickson
  • 08 July 2019
  • Speech

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