Sir David Norman Reddaway is a retired British diplomat who was High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Ireland and Turkey.
Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles is a British former diplomat. He was the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009–2010. After leaving the Foreign Office,he worked briefly for BAE Systems as international business development director. He left BAE Systems in 2013 and is now a Senior Adviser to the Group chairman and the Group Chief Executive of HSBC.
Sir Geoffrey Doyne Adams served as the British Ambassador to Egypt from 2018 to 2021,as a member of the British Diplomatic Service. He was Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2013 to 2017.
Sir Dominic Anthony Gerard Asquith is a British career diplomat and former Ambassador to Iraq,Egypt,and Libya. He was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington DC. He was most recently the British High Commissioner to the Republic of India.
Sir William Charters Patey,KCMG is a British retired diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012,and previously served as Ambassador to Sudan,to Iraq and to Saudi Arabia.
Sir David Alexander Warren,KCMG is a British diplomat,serving as HM Ambassador to Japan in the period 2008–2012. He retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in January 2013,and served as chairman of The Japan Society in London from 2013 to 2019.
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.
David Arthur Slinn is a retired British diplomat. He was Chargéd'Affaires to Albania in 1995 to 1996. Slinn was the first British ambassador to North Korea. Slinn was head of the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team between 2007-08. He was appointed ambassador to Croatia in 2012 and retired from the Diplomatic Service in 2015. He also held posts in Geneva,Ulan Bator,Pretoria,Tirana,Belgrade,and Pristina.
Sir John Jenkins is a British former diplomat who was ambassador to several countries.
Sir Nicholas Peter Kay is a British diplomat. He has served as the British ambassador to Afghanistan,Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From 2013 to 2016 he was the United Nations Special Representative for Somalia.
Sir James Sebastian Lamin Wood,,usually known by his middle name Sebastian,is a British diplomat who was the Ambassador to China from 2010 to 2015,and Ambassador to Germany from 2015 to 2020.
Christine Isobel "Kirsty" Hayes is a British diplomat and civil servant. She was British Ambassador to Portugal from 2014 to 2018.
Catherine Elizabeth Jane Arnold,is a British academic administrator and former diplomat. Since October 2019,she has been the Master of St Edmund's College,Cambridge:she is the fifteenth person to hold that post and the first woman. From May 2015 until 2018 she served as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Mongolia. After three degrees,she worked as a management consultant and then journalist. She had joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2006.
Jessica Mary Hand is a British diplomat who was the British Ambassador to Angola from 2018 to 2021. She was appointed as ambassador on 21 July 2017 and succeeded John Dennis in March the next year.
John David Dennis Jr. is a British diplomat who was the British Ambassador to Angola from 2014 to 2018 and the Director of Green Corridors and Ivory Trade at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference 2018. He is currently the British Representative to Taiwan,heading the British Office Taipei.
Alison Mary Blake is a British diplomat who is currently serving as Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. She previously served as High Commissioner to Bangladesh and Ambassador to Afghanistan.
The British Consulate-General in Osaka is the diplomatic mission responsible for representing the Government of the United Kingdom in Western Japan.
