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Duncan John Rushworth Taylor CBE is the appointed Ambassador to Mexico and arrived in country in October 2013. Duncan Taylor was Governor in Grand Cayman from 2010 to 2013. He was born in England in 1958 and began his service...
Jonathan Brenton holds the post of Minister Counsellor (Prosperity) at the British Embassy in Moscow. Biography May 2015 – Minister Counsellor, Prosperity, British Embassy in Moscow 2014 – 2015 – FCO Communications Directorate (including public campaigns) 2010 – 2014 –...
Jonathan Dunn took up his position as British Consul-General, Rio de Janeiro in August 2014. Jonathan was born in Oxford and was educated at Abingdon School and the United World College of South East Asia (Singapore). He has a degree...
Richard was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Nepal from November 2015 to November 2019. Before that he was Head of Pacific Department at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) from 2013 to 2015. Between 2008 and 2012 Richard was Consul General...
The Acting British High Commissioner Steven Chandler arrived in Fiji on 16 January 2013. Born in 1968, Steven joined the Diplomatic Service in 1987. He was Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Bangkok before coming to Fiji....
Richard Moore is the Chief of MI6, the UK Secret Intelligence Service . Richard was Director General for Political Affairs at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from April 2018 to August 2020. He served as British Ambassador to Turkey from...
Patrick Reilly took up post as Deputy Head of Mission at the British High Commission in Wellington in January 2011. Patrick is a career diplomatic service officer. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1995 and worked on the...
Tom Burn became Deputy Representative to Taiwan in July 2021. Tom joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1999. Prior to his arrival in Taiwan, his most recent diplomatic posting was as Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, 2017-2020. His...
Sir Peter Westmacott, KCMG, LVO was British Ambassador to the United States from January 2012 until January 2016. It was his second posting in Washington, having previously served as the British Embassy’s Counsellor for Political and Public Affairs in the...
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Mr Richard Porter has been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Plurinational State of Bolivia in succession to Mr Jeff Glekin.
Sir David Reddaway has been British Ambassador to Turkey since 2009. He was previously Ambassador to Ireland (2006-9); High Commissioner to Canada (2003-6); a Fellow at Harvard University (2002-3); UK Special Representative for Afghanistan (2002); and Charge d’Affaires in Iran...
Bharat was born in Croydon, United Kingdom in 1969. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1995 and has had diplomatic postings to the Gambia, Dhaka and Qatar. He was most recently British High Commissioner to Cameroon, and...
Mr Michael Davenport was most recently Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the State of Kuwait. Before this he was EU Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, and British Ambassador to Serbia. His first foreign posting as a British...
Alastair King-Smith is British Ambassador to Albania. He took up his posting in August 2021, after a year’s language training in Albanian. He has been a diplomat since 1996. Alastair previously served in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in...
Born in Essex, John Mitchell joined the UK Diplomatic Service in 1996 having previously served in the British Army. Before his first posting overseas as Third Secretary at the British Embassy Skopje (2000 to 2003), John worked at the Foreign...
Kim’s diplomatic career spanned 3 decades and was primarily focussed on national security issues and European Union policy. Before serving as the British Ambassador to the USA from 2016 until 2019, Kim was the Prime Minister’s National Security Advisor, from...
Richard is His Majesty’s Consul General in Houston, and has been in this role since June 2019. As Consul General, he has overall responsibility for leading the UK’s engagement in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico....
Peter Millett was the British Ambassador to Libya from July 2015 until January 2018. He has served in a number of positions in the British Diplomatic Service since joining in 1974: British Ambassador to Jordan (2011 to 2015), High Commissioner...
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