Sir Timothy Mark Hitchens,is a British diplomat and a former Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen Elizabeth II,in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom,1999–2002.
Sir Laurence Stanley Charles Bristow is a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to Afghanistan between June and November 2021,notably during the fall of Kabul. He served as British Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2004 to 2007 and British Ambassador to Russia from 2016 to 2020. He is now President of Hughes Hall,Cambridge.
Robert Leigh Turner is a writer and British former diplomat. His final role was British Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna from August 2016 to September 2021.
Sir Julian Beresford King is a British diplomat and civil servant who served as the final British European Commissioner from 2016 to 2019 prior to Brexit,having previously served as the British ambassador to Ireland (2009–2011) and France (2016).
Alexander Wykeham "Alex" Ellis CMG is a British civil servant,currently British High Commissioner to India. Previously,he was Deputy National Security Adviser for the Integrated Review on diplomacy,development and defence. Ellis was previously the Director General of the Department for Exiting the EU. He had previously been Britain's ambassador to Brazil from July 2013 to January 2017.
Sir Simon Lawrance Gass is a British civil servant. Since 2019,he has chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee and he also served as the British Prime Minister's representative on Afghanistan from 2021 to 2022 concurrently. Between 2018 and 2019,he was the Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies. During his diplomatic career,he served as British ambassador to Greece and to Iran. In May 2023,it was announced he was stepping down as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and succeeded by Madeleine Alessandri.
The principal private secretary to the secretary of state for foreign and Commonwealth affairs is the head of the private office of the foreign minister of His Majesty's Government,and is located in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Main Building.
Asif Ahmad is a banker-turned-diplomat,having served as a Senior Civil Servant at the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office. From 2017 to August 2021 he was the British High Commissioner to Jamaica. He was the British Ambassador to Thailand from November 2010 until August 2012. He was the British Ambassador to the Philippines from July 2013 to 2017. He has also been accredited to the Bahamas,Palau and Laos.
Sir Brian James Proetel Fall is a retired British diplomat who was the UK's Special Representative for the South Caucasus 2002–12.
Sir Timothy Earle Barrow is a British diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union from 2017 to 2020 and as the British Ambassador to the European Union from 2020 to 2021. He currently serves as National Security Adviser.
Ian Cameron Cliff is a British diplomat who has been Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina,the Sudan,the OSCE and Kosovo,as well as Chargéd'Affaires in Croatia.
Simon Gerard McDonald,Baron McDonald of Salford,is a British former diplomat who was the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service until September 2020. He was the last professional head of the Foreign &Commonwealth Office before the creation of the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office. He has been the Master of Christ's College,Cambridge,since September 2022.
Brian John Davidson is a British diplomat who is the British Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macao as of July 2021.
Thomas Drew is a British diplomat who is currently Director General,Defence and Intelligence,at the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office and has previously been British High Commissioner to Pakistan.
Susan Jane le Jeune d'Allegeershecque is a British diplomat who,most recently,served as British High Commissioner to Canada from 2017 to 2021. She previously served as British Ambassador to Austria from 2012 to 2016.
Michael Harry Tatham is a British diplomat,serving since January 2018 as the deputy British Ambassador to the United States. Following the resignation of Kim Darroch in July 2019,he became chargéd'affaires ad interim.
Lindsay Skoll CMG is a British diplomat. Since 2021,she has served as the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Austria and the UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna.
