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.
Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos,, is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN, she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997, serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007.
Robert Francis Cornish is a retired British diplomat. He has served as the Foreign Office spokesman for Douglas Hurd, Senior Trade Commissioner to Hong Kong, Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macao, head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's news department, and Ambassador to Israel.
The Hong Kong order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the Government of Hong Kong. Administered by the government's Protocol Division, the hierarchy does not determine the order of succession for the office of Chief Executive, which is instead specified by the Basic Law of Hong Kong.
Sir Edward Clay KCMG is a retired British diplomat, formerly a High Commissioner and ambassador.
In the Commonwealth of Nations, a high commissioner is the senior diplomat in charge of the diplomatic mission of one Commonwealth government to another. Instead of an embassy, the diplomatic mission is generally called a high commission.
John Cecil Dauth, AO, LVO is an Australian public servant and diplomat. He was the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2008 to 2013.
The High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to the Bahamas is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
Stephen John Bridges LVO was a British diplomat who served as the British Ambassador to Cambodia between 2000 and 2005, Acting and Deputy High Commissioner to Bangladesh between 2005 and 2007 and as HM Consul-General Chicago between 2013 and 2017.
Dame Barbara Logan Hay is a British diplomat who served as Consul-General in Los Angeles from July 2009 to August 2013.
Peter Richard Hayes is a British diplomat. He was formerly the Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory and the British Antarctic Territory.
Paul Damian Madden is a retired British diplomat, who was High Commissioner to Singapore and to Australia, and Ambassador to Japan between 2017 and 2021.
Dame Judith Anne Macgregor is a British diplomat who was High Commissioner to South Africa from 2013 to 2017. She previously served as Ambassador to Slovakia from 2004 to 2007, and Ambassador to Mexico from 2009 to 2013.
Sir Roger Carrick is a former British diplomat and an author and business adviser.
Sir Harold Smedley was a British diplomat who was envoy to several countries.
Antony John Phillipson is a British diplomat. He was High Commissioner to Singapore from 2011 to April 2015, and is from 2017 the British Consul-General in New York and Her Majesty's Trade Commissioner for North America.
Sir Philip Robert Barton is a senior British diplomat, currently the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He was previously British High Commissioner to India; he was High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2014 to 2016.
