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 Mark Justin Lyall Grant is a former senior British diplomat who was previously the United Kingdom's National Security Adviser and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.
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).
Sir Simon Lawrance Gass is a British civil servant. He chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee from 2019 to 2023 and 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.
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.
Jean Francois Gordon was the British Ambassador to Algeria from 1996 to 1999,Ambassador to the Ivory Coast from 2001 to 2004 and High Commissioner to Uganda from 2005 to 2008.
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 served as National Security Adviser from 2022 to 2024.
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 Macau as of July 2021.
Sir Thomas Drew is a British diplomat who was the Director General,Defence and Intelligence,at the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office and has previously been British High Commissioner to Pakistan.
Susan 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.
Peter Michael Alexander Wilson is a civil servant whose most recent post was to serve as Director General Europe in the FCDO. He has also served as British Ambassador to Brazil,British Ambassador to the Netherlands,Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,and Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Dame Caroline Elizabeth Wilson is a British diplomat and lawyer who assumed office as the British Ambassador to China in September 2020.
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.
