Dame Sarah MacIntosh DCMG

Biography

Ms Sarah MacIntosh CMG was appointed Permanent Representative to the United Kingdom’s Delegation to NATO in February 2017.

Previously she served as Director General, Defence and Intelligence at the Foreign Office from May 2014 to November 2016.

Sarah joined the FCO in 1991. Previous appointments include Director for Defence and International Security (2011-2014); Director for Strategic Finance (2009-2010); Her Majesty’s High Commissioner to Sierra Leone and Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Liberia (2006-2008) and the Strategy Co-ordinator for the UN Mission in Kosovo (2004-2005).

Sarah has also been posted to the UK Mission to the United Nations at New York; the UK Mission to the IAEA at Vienna and the British Embassy Madrid.

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Previous roles in government

  • UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
  • Director General, Consular and Security