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.
Sir David Norman Reddaway is a retired British diplomat who was High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Ireland and Turkey.
Stephen Evans CMG OBE is a British diplomat who has been on secondment since 2011 as NATO Assistant Secretary General for Operations.
Sir David Alexander Warren,KCMG is a British diplomat,serving as HM Ambassador to Japan in the period 2008–2012. He retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in January 2013,and served as chairman of The Japan Society in London from 2013 to 2019.
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.
Mark Philip Sedwill,Baron Sedwill,is a British diplomat and senior civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service to Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson from 2018 to 2020. He also served as the United Kingdom National Security Adviser from 2017 to 2020. He was previously the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010 and the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan in 2010. He was the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from February 2013 to April 2017.
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.
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.
Sir Martin Eugene Donnelly,is a British former civil servant. He was Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Trade,until leaving the Civil Service on 24 March 2017.
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.
Sir Brian James Proetel Fall is a retired British diplomat who was the UK's Special Representative for the South Caucasus 2002–12.
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.
Sir Patrick Robin Fearn KCMG was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Cuba and Spain.
Sir Philip Robert Barton is a British diplomat,currently the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office. He was previously British High Commissioner to India;he was High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2014 to 2016.
Dame Menna Frances Rawlings is a British diplomat serving as British Ambassador to France since 2021. Previously British High Commissioner to Australia from 2015 to 2019,she then served as Director General of Economic and Global Issues at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2019 to 2020.
Dame Sarah MacIntosh is a British diplomat who is the Deputy National Security Adviser for International Affairs. She previously served as High Commissioner to Sierra Leone,Ambassador to Liberia and British Ambassador to NATO from 2017 to 2022.
Jan Thompson is a British diplomat,who since April 2023 has served as the British Ambassador to Norway. She served previously as British Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2013 to 2017,and as British Deputy High Commissioner to India from 2018 to 2023.
Joanna Louise Roper,Lady Drew,is a British diplomat who has served as the British Ambassador to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague since 2020.
Alison Mary Blake,is a British diplomat who is currently serving as Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. She previously served as High Commissioner to Bangladesh and Ambassador to Afghanistan.
Christian Philip Hollier Turner is a British diplomat serving as Political Director of the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office since 2023. He previously served as British High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2019 to 2023.
