Hannah Young was a British civil servant and diplomat. She served as British Consul-General in New York for 2024, departing in November of the same year. [1]
Hannah Young was a British civil servant and diplomat. She served as British Consul-General in New York for 2024, departing in November of the same year. [1]
Born in Watford, [2] Young worked for the Department for Exiting the European Union, the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and the Cabinet Office and spent three years as a diplomat in Afghanistan before becoming the Prime Minister's lead official on home affairs policy at No. 10 Downing Street under Boris Johnson. [1] Her leaving party on 18 June 2020 was one of the gatherings investigated as part of the partygate inquiry, resulting in fixed penalty notices. [2] [3] Subsequently, Young was posted to New York.
After serving as acting Consul General in 2021, then Deputy Consul General, Young was appointed Consul-General in New York following the early departure of Emma Wade-Smith [1] . The previously combined roles of Consul-General and Trade Commissioner were separated, and Kunal Khatri was appointed as Trade Commissioner for North America, having previously served as Deputy Trade Commissioner. [4]
In 2024 she unveiled a plaque at Saint Thomas Church in New York to mark the 100th anniversary of the city's twinning with York in England. [5] [6] She also serves as honorary chair of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York [7] and honorary president of the Saint George's Society of New York. [8]
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