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Nigel Phillips CBE was appointed Governor of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in April 2022 and took up the role in August 2022. 2017 to 2022 Governor of the Falkland Islands and Her Majesty’s Commissioner for South Georgia...

• Updated: 22 August 2022

Mark Harper was Secretary of State for Transport between 25 October 2022 and 5 July 2024. Previously, he served as Chief Whip (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury) from May 2015 until 14 July 2016. Previously Mark served as Minister for...

• Updated: 18 July 2024

Mark Matthews was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Chad from April 2021 until August 2022. Previously Mark was Deputy Head of Joint Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development (FCO-DFID) North Africa Unit between 2017 to...

• Updated: 15 February 2023

Mark was appointed as a Non-Executive Director (NED) at the Government Property Agency (GPA) in April 2018. Mark is a non-executive member for the GPA Board. He is also assisting its Investment Committee as an independent member. Mark is a...

• Updated: 16 May 2018

Mark Bryson-Richardson was appointed the Foreign Secretary’s Representative for Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in December 2023. Previously Mark was the British Ambassador to Iraq from July 2021 to July 2023. Before this, Mark served as the Department...

• Updated: 27 December 2023

Mark has worked at the Ministry of Justice since early 2016, whilst within the department he has driven many of the department’s HR led programmes from restructuring to service improvement, including driving recruitment to fulfil our Ministerial Commitments to effectively...

• Updated: 12 July 2021

Mark Rakestraw was the Acting Consul General in St Petersburg from May to September 2017. Since October 2014, he has been Director of Corporate Services and Her Majesty’s Consul General at the British Embassy in Moscow. He occupied both roles...

• Updated: 31 July 2018

Mark Rawlinson joined the Ministry of Justice as a Lead Non-Executive Board Member on 4 June 2018. His term of office following reappointment concludes on 3 March 2026. Mark has over 30 years of commercial experience as an adviser -...

• Updated: 4 April 2025

Mark started his Civil Service career in the Public Trust Office in 1987 before moving to working in courts and tribunals in 1990, where he has undertaken a wide variety of leadership, project/programme management and estate-related roles at Cluster, regional...

• Updated: 19 January 2023

Mark is the Head of Office for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in Zambia. Mark has been based at the British High Commission in Lusaka since September 2017. Mark joined DFID in 2005 and has held a number...

• Updated: 7 February 2018