Sheinwald worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the Japan desk from 1976 to 1977 and on the Zimbabwe desk from 1979 to 1981. He served in Moscow from 1978 to 1979 and was Head of the Foreign Office Anglo-Soviet Section from 1981 to 1983. From 1983 to 1987,he worked in the political section of the British Embassy in Washington,D.C. From 1987 to 1989 he was Deputy Head of the Foreign Office's Policy Planning Staff. He was Deputy Head of the Foreign Office's European Union (Internal) Department from 1989 to 1992 and Head of the UK Representations Political and Institutional Section in Brussels from 1993 to 1995.[citation needed]
Sheinwald was Foreign Office Press Secretary from 1995 to 1998 and Europe Director from 1998 to 2000,before serving as the UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Union from 2000 to 2003. From 2003 to 2007,he was Foreign Policy and Defence Adviser under Prime Minister Tony Blair and then as Head of the Cabinet Office Defence and Overseas Secretariat.
Speaking to the New Statesman in November 2017,Sheinwald expressed unease about British Foreign SecretaryBoris Johnson's influence on international affairs:"His [Johnson’s] style gets in the way of handling foreign relations in a serious,responsible way at a time of real difficulty for this country…I don’t think he’s been at all helpful to the UK national interest,and I think that’s very regrettable indeed".[9]
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