Simon Shercliff CMG OBE (born 23 December 1972) [1] is a British diplomat, and Ambassador to Iran. [2]
Simon Shercliff CMG OBE (born 23 December 1972) [1] is a British diplomat, and Ambassador to Iran. [2]
Shercliff was educated at Wells Cathedral School. [3] He graduated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1995, with a degree in Earth Sciences. [4] [5]
Shercliff took up his first posting with the (then) Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2000, as a political officer in the Embassy in Tehran, Iran, in 2000. He was subsequently deployed to Baghdad, Iraq as Private Secretary to Jeremy Greenstock, who was the UK's Special Representative to Iraq. Later postings took him to Washington, D.C., Kabul, Abuja and then to Yemen, as British Ambassador. [6] He returned to London as Director of National Security for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in February 2018.
In August 2021, he became the British Ambassador to Iran. [7]
In December 2004, Shercliff was awarded an OBE in the Civilian Honours list "in recognition of services to the reconstruction of Iraq and towards its transition to democracy". [8]
In the 2021 New Year Honours Shercliff was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) "for services to British foreign policy and National Security." [9]
He is married to Emma Louise Shercliff, and they have two children. [7]
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