The Foreign,Commonwealth &Development Office (FCDO) is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. Equivalent to other countries' ministries of foreign affairs,it was created on 2 September 2020 through the merger of the Foreign &Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID). The FCO,itself created in 1968 by the merger of the Foreign Office (FO) and the Commonwealth Office,was responsible for protecting and promoting British interests worldwide.
The Heads of British diplomatic missions are persons appointed as senior diplomats to individual nations,or international organisations. They are usually appointed as ambassadors,except in member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations where a high commissioner is appointed. The head of mission to an international organisation is usually a permanent representative. For some nations a consul or consul-general is appointed.
A British High Commission is a British diplomatic mission,equivalent to an embassy,found in countries that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations. Their general purpose is to provide diplomatic relationships as well as travel information,passports,dual-citizenship information,and other services between Commonwealth states.
David Jonathan Robin Angell has been the Canadian ambassador to NATO since 2019. He was the Canadian High Commissioner to Kenya from 2012 until 2016,cross-posted as High Commissioner to Rwanda and Uganda;as Ambassador designate to Burundi,Somalia and South Sudan,and as Canada's representative to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in Nairobi.
The High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Fiji is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Fiji.
Sir Julian Beresford King is a British diplomat and civil servant who served as the final British European Commissioner from 2016 to 2019,having previously served as the British ambassador to Ireland (2009–2012) and France (2016).
Sir Simon Lawrance Gass is a British civil servant. Since 2019,he has chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee and he also currently serves as the British Prime Minister's representative on Afghanistan. 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.
Peter Richard Hayes is a British diplomat. He was formerly the Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory and the British Antarctic Territory.
Somalia–United Kingdom relations are bilateral relations between Somalia and the United Kingdom.
The British High Commission in Dar es Salaam is the diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in Tanzania. It is located on Hamburg Avenue in the Ilala District. The current British High Commissioner to Tanzania is David Concar since August 2020.
Robert Nigel Paul Macaire CMG is a British diplomat who served as UK's Ambassador to Iran from 2018 to 2021.
Christopher George Edgar is a retired British and European diplomat who served as the British High Commissioner to the Republic of Fiji.
David Ward is a British diplomat who works for the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is currently the British High Commissioner to Samoa. He previously served as the British High Commissioner to Solomon Islands and non-resident British High Commissioner to the Republic of Vanuatu and the Republic of Nauru.
Richard Peter Moore is a British civil servant,currently the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and formerly the director general for political affairs,at the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office,and previously the British ambassador to Turkey. In 2020,Moore became the first member of the British intelligence agencies to use social media publicly.
Nicholas Westcott is a British diplomat. He is director of the Royal African Society since 2017 and a research associate at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London. He was formerly a member of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service,serving as British High Commissioner to Ghana and as managing director for Africa and the Middle East in the European External Action Service. He has also published a number of books and articles on African history and international affairs.
