List of permanent representatives of the United Kingdom to NATO

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His Britannic Majesty's Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
NATO flag.svg
David Quarrey.jpg
since April 2022
Style His Excellency
Member of North Atlantic Council
Reports to Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
North Atlantic Council
Appointer King Charles III
as Sovereign
Website UK Joint Delegation to NATO

The Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council is the senior member of the United Kingdom's delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Contents

Permanent Representatives to the North Atlantic Council

Military Representatives to NATO

Military representatives have included: [7]

Military Representatives to NATO
ImageRankNameTerm beganTerm ended
Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. CH12164.jpg Air Chief Marshal Sir William Elliot 19511953
John Francis Martin Whiteley, cropped from Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force- Personalities TR2630.jpg General Sir John Whiteley 19531956
Admiral Sir John Tovey and Members of His Staff. 4 February 1943, on Board Home Fleet Flagship HMS King George V. A14846 (cropped).jpg Admiral Sir Michael Denny 19561959
Elliot and Mills in Italy WWII IWM CNA 3470 (cropped).jpg Air Chief Marshal Sir George Mills 19591962
No image.svg General Sir Michael West 19621965
No image.svg Admiral Sir Nigel Henderson 19651968
No image.svg Air Chief Marshal Sir David Lee 19681971
No image.svg General Sir Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour 19711973
No image.svg Admiral Sir Rae McKaig 19731975
No image.svg General Sir David Fraser 19751977
No image.svg Air Chief Marshal Sir Alasdair Steedman 19771980
No image.svg Admiral Sir Anthony Morton 19801983
No image.svg General Sir Thomas Morony 19831986
No image.svg Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Knight 19861989
No image.svg Admiral Sir Richard Thomas 19891992
No image.svg General Sir Edward Jones 19921995
John Cheshire (2005).jpg Air Marshal Sir John Cheshire 19951997
Paul Haddacks (cropped).jpg Vice Admiral Sir Paul Haddacks 19972000
Officers of the Order of the Garter (Willcocks cropped).JPG Lieutenant General Sir Michael Willcocks 20002001
No image.svg Lieutenant General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue 20012002
Robert Wright 2010 (cropped).jpg Air Marshal SIr Robert Wright 20022006
No image.svg Vice Admiral Sir Anthony Dymock 20062008
No image.svg Lieutenant General Sir David Bill 20082011
Air Marshal C N Harper (cropped).jpg Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper [8] 20112013
Rear Admiral Ian Corder (cropped).jpg Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder 20132016
George Norton.jpg Lieutenant General Sir George Norton 20162020
Wins silver bugle (cropped).jpg Lieutenant General Sir Ben Bathurst [9] [10] [a] 20202023
Ian Cave (cropped).jpg Lieutenant General Sir Ian Cave 2023present

Notes

  1. position merged with the role of military representative to the European Union. [11]

References

  1. Dame Mariot Leslie, UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
  2. Sir Adam Thomson KCMG, UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
  3. "Paul Johnston, UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council". gov.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  4. "Change of UK Permanent Representative to NATO". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  5. "Sarah MacIntosh CMG, UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council". gov.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
  6. "Prime Minister appoints Mr David Quarrey CMG as the UK's new Permanent Representative to NATO". GOV.UK. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  7. Ministry of Defence and Tri-service Senior Appointments Archived 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, UK Military Representative to NATO
  9. "The Army in London - HQ London District". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  10. Mackie, Colin (8 January 2020). "Generals, January 2020" (PDF). gulabin.com. Colin Mackie. Retrieved 8 January 2020. Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin J. Bathurst (late Welsh Guards): U.K. National Military Representative, N.A.T.O., 2020
  11. "No. 62947". The London Gazette . 17 March 2020. p. 5503.