The diplomatic foreign relations of the United Kingdom are conducted by the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office,headed by the Foreign Secretary. The prime minister and numerous other agencies play a role in setting policy,and many institutions and businesses have a voice and a role.
Sir David Norman Reddaway is a retired British diplomat who was High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Ireland and Turkey.
Sir Simon James Fraser is a British former diplomat who served as the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2010 to July 2015,having served as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Business,Innovation and Skills from May 2009 to August 2010. Sir Simon is a Trustee of the Patchwork Foundation,founded by Harris Bokhari. Sir Simon is currently Deputy Chairman of Chatham House and serves as Adviser to the Europe Programme. He is also Managing Partner of Flint Global.
Alexander Wykeham "Alex" Ellis CMG is a British civil servant,currently British High Commissioner to India. Previously,he was Deputy National Security Adviser for the Integrated Review on diplomacy,development and defence. Ellis was previously the Director General of the Department for Exiting the EU. He had previously been Britain's ambassador to Brazil from July 2013 to January 2017.
Nigel Marcus Baker is a British diplomat,who was formerly Ambassador to Bolivia and Ambassador to the Holy See. He was Head of the Latin America department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2016 to 2019,and in August 2020 took up his appointment as British Ambassador to Slovakia.
Dame Karen Elizabeth Pierce,Lady Roxburgh,,is a British diplomat who is currently British Ambassador to the United States at the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office,and was previously the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.
The British Embassy Kyiv is the British sovereign's diplomatic mission to Ukraine,representing the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom's interests. The embassy is located on Desyatynna street in the Pecherskyi District of the city,right opposite to the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. The British Ambassador to Ukraine is Martin Harris who was appointed in 2023.
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.
Vadym Volodymyrovych Prystaiko is a Ukrainian diplomat who was Ukraine's ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was appointed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 20 July 2020 and held the position until he was dismissed by Zelenskyy three years later.
Judith Mary Gough CMG is a British diplomat and the current Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Sweden.
Francis Raymond Baker is a British diplomat and civil servant who was Ambassador to Libya from February 2018 to April 2019. He was Ambassador to Kuwait from 2010 to 2014,and Ambassador to Iraq from 2014 to 2017.
Peter Michael Alexander Wilson is a civil servant whose most recent post was to serve as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He has also served as British Ambassador to Brazil,British Ambassador to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Dominic Sebastian Schroeder is a British diplomat currently serving as Principal of the International Academy of the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office.
Jill Gallard is a British diplomat who took up the post of British Ambassador to Germany in November 2020. Previously she was the British Ambassador to Portugal,director of human resources at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and deputy political director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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.
Dame Melinda Veronica Simmons is a British diplomat who served as the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Ukraine from 2019 to 2023.
Kumar Sabapathy Iyer is a British economist and civil servant. He is currently the Director General for Economics,Science and Technology at the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). He leads all cross-cutting work on international economic policy including oversight of the UK’s sanctions regime. His most recent roles include Director General in the Prime Minister’s COVID-19 Taskforce and before that Chief Economist and a Board Member at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
Hugh Stephen Murray Elliott is a British diplomat,currently serving as the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Spain and non-resident Ambassador Extraordinary to Andorra since 2019. Prior to this,he was Director for Communications at the Department for Exiting the European Union.
Matthew James Lodge is a British diplomat. Since September 2021,he has been Ambassador to Greece. Previously,he served as UK Ambassador to Finland (2010–2013) and UK Ambassador to Kuwait (2014–2017).
