Heads of Diplomatic Missions of the United Kingdom

The Heads of British diplomatic missions are persons appointed as senior diplomats to individual nations, or international organizations. They are usually appointed as ambassadors, except in member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations where a high commissioner is appointed. The head of mission to an international organization is usually a permanent representative. For some nations a consul or consul-general is appointed.

Flag used by British embassies

The Union Flag, used by High Commissions

Flag used by British consulates and consulates-general

The positions have a dual role, being representatives of the British Monarchy and the British Government; they are recommended by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and then approved by Buckingham Palace.^[1]

Resident heads of mission

Mission	Location	Type	Head of mission	Position	List
Albania	Tirana	Embassy	Alastair King-Smith	Ambassador	List
Algeria	Algiers	Embassy	Sharon Wardle	Ambassador	List
Angola	Luanda	Embassy	Roger Stringer	Ambassador	List
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Embassy	Kirsty Hayes	Ambassador	List
Armenia	Yerevan	Embassy	John Gallagher	Ambassador	List
Australia	Canberra	High Commission	Victoria Treadell	High Commissioner	List
Austria	Vienna	Embassy	Lindsay Skoll	Ambassador	List
Azerbaijan	Baku	Embassy	Fergus Auld	Ambassador	List
Bahamas	Nassau	High Commission	Thomas Hartley	High Commissioner	List
Bahrain	Manama	Embassy	Alastair Long	Ambassador	List
Bangladesh	Dhaka	High Commission	Sarah Cooke	High Commissioner	List
Barbados	Bridgetown	High Commission	Scott Furssedonn-Wood	High Commissioner	List
Belarus	Minsk	Embassy	Jacqueline Perkins	Ambassador	List
Belgium	Brussels	Embassy	Martin Shearman	Ambassador	List
Belize	Belmopan	High Commission	Nicole Davison	High Commissioner	List
Bolivia	La Paz	Embassy	Richard Porter	Ambassador	List
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Embassy	Julian Reilly	Ambassador	List
Botswana	Gaborone	High Commission	Sian Price	High Commissioner	List
Brazil	Brasilia	Embassy	Stephanie Al-Qaq	Ambassador	List
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	High Commission	John Virgoe	High Commissioner	List
Bulgaria	Sofia	Embassy	Rob Dixon	Ambassador	List
Burma	Yangon	Embassy	Pete Vowles	Ambassador	List
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Embassy	Dominic Williams	Ambassador	List
Cameroon	Yaoundé	High Commission	Barry Lowen	High Commissioner	List
Canada	Ottawa	High Commission	Susannah Goshko	High Commissioner	List
Chad	N'Djamena	Embassy Office[note b]	Jon Dean	Ambassador
Chile	Santiago	Embassy	Louise De Sousa	Ambassador	List
China	Beijing	Embassy	Dame Caroline Wilson	Ambassador	List
Colombia	Bogotá	Embassy	Colin Martin-Reynolds	Ambassador	List
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	Embassy	Emily Maltman	Ambassador	List
Costa Rica	San José	Embassy	Ben Lyster-Binns	Ambassador	List
Côte d'Ivoire	Abidjan	Embassy	Catherine Brooker	Ambassador	List
Croatia	Zagreb	Embassy	Simon Thomas	Ambassador	List
Cuba	Havana	Embassy	Sir George Hollingbery	Ambassador	List
Cyprus	Nicosia	High Commission	Irfan Siddiq	High Commissioner	List
Czech Republic	Prague	Embassy	Matt Field	Ambassador	List
Denmark	Copenhagen	Embassy	Emma Hopkins	Ambassador	List
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Embassy	Mockbul Ali	Ambassador	List
Haiti					List
Ecuador	Quito	Embassy	Chris Campbell	Ambassador	List
Egypt	Cairo	Embassy	Gareth Bayley	Ambassador	List
El Salvador	San Salvador	Embassy	Bernhard Garside	Ambassador	List
Eritrea	Asmara	Embassy	Alisdair Walker	Ambassador	List
Estonia	Tallinn	Embassy	Ross Allen	Ambassador	List
Eswatini	Mbabane	High Commission	Simon Boyden	High Commissioner
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Embassy	Darren Welch	Ambassador	List
European Union	Brussels	Embassy	Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby CMG	Ambassador	List
Fiji	Suva	High Commission	Brian Jones	High Commissioner	List
Finland	Helsinki	Embassy	Theresa Bubbear	Ambassador	List
France	Paris	Embassy	Dame Menna Rawlings	Ambassador	List
Gabon	Libreville	High Commission	Simon Day	High Commissioner	List
The Gambia	Banjul	High Commission	David Belgrove	High Commissioner	List
Georgia	Tbilisi	Embassy	Mark Clayton	Ambassador	List
Germany	Berlin	Embassy	Jill Gallard	Ambassador	List
Ghana	Accra	High Commission	Harriet Thompson	High Commissioner	List
Greece	Athens	Embassy	Matthew Lodge	Ambassador	List
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Embassy	Nick Whittingham	Ambassador	List
Guinea	Conakry	Embassy	John Marshall	Ambassador	List
Guyana	Georgetown	High Commission	Jane Miller	High Commissioner	List
Holy See	Vatican City	Embassy	Christopher Trott	Ambassador	List
Hungary	Budapest	Embassy	Paul Fox	Ambassador	List
Iceland	Reykjavík	Embassy	Bryony Mathew	Ambassador	List
India	New Delhi	High Commission	Lindy Cameron	High Commissioner	List
Indonesia	Jakarta	Embassy	Dominic Jermey	Ambassador	List
Iran	Tehran	Embassy	Simon Shercliff	Ambassador	List
Iraq	Baghdad	Embassy	Stephen Hitchen	Ambassador	List
Ireland	Dublin	Embassy	Paul Johnston	Ambassador	List
Israel	Tel Aviv	Embassy	Simon Walters	Ambassador	List
Italy	Rome	Embassy	Edward Llewellyn, Baron Llewellyn of Steep	Ambassador	List
Jamaica	Kingston	High Commission	Judith Slater	High Commissioner	List
Japan	Tokyo	Embassy	Julia Longbottom	Ambassador	List
Jordan	Amman	Embassy	Philip Hall	Ambassador	List
Kazakhstan	Almaty	Embassy	Kathy Leach	Ambassador	List
Kenya	Nairobi	High Commission	Neil Wigan	High Commissioner	List
Kosovo	Pristina	Embassy	Jonathan Hargreaves	Ambassador	List
Kuwait	Kuwait City	Embassy	Belinda Lewis	Ambassador	List
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	Embassy	Charles Garrett	Ambassador	List
Laos	Vientiane	Embassy	John Pearson	Ambassador	List
Latvia	Riga	Embassy	Paul Brummell	Ambassador	List
Lebanon	Beirut	Embassy	Ian Collard	Ambassador	List
Lesotho	Maseru	High Commission	Harry MacDonald	High Commissioner	List
Liberia	Monrovia	Embassy	Neil Bradley	Ambassador	List
Libya	Tripoli	Embassy	Martin Longden	Ambassador	List
Lithuania	Vilnius	Embassy	Brian Olley	Ambassador	List
Luxembourg	Luxembourg City	Embassy	Fleur Thomas	Ambassador	List
Madagascar	Antananarivo	Embassy	David Ashley	Ambassador	List
Malawi	Lilongwe	High Commission	Fiona Ritchie (diplomat)	High Commissioner	List
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	High Commission	High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Malaysia Incumbent Ailsa Terry since August 2023 Style Her Excellency Seat Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Inaugural holder Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head Formation 1963 Website www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-high-commission-kuala-lumpur The high commissioner of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Malaysia is the head of United Kingdom's diplomatic mission to Malaysia. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and is based in the High Commission of the United Kingdom, Kuala Lumpur. Prior to its separation and independence from the British Empire in 1957, Malaya was ruled by governors also termed "high commissioners". List of heads of mission High commissioner to Malaya Main article: List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Malaya 1957–1963: Sir Geofroy Tory KCMG[2] High commissioners to Malaysia 1963–1966: Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head GCMG CBE MC [2] 1966–1971: Sir Michael Walker GCMG [2] 1971–1974: Sir John Johnston GCMG KCVO [2] 1974–1977: Sir Eric Norris KCMG [2] 1977–1981: Sir Donald Hawley KCMG MBE [2] 1981–1983: Sir William Bentley KCMG [2] 1983–1986: David Gillmore[2] 1986–1992: Sir Nicholas Spreckley CMG [2] 1992–1994: Duncan Slater CMG [2] 1994–1998: Sir David Moss KCVO CMG [2] 1998–2001: Sir Graham Fry KCMG [2] 2001–2006: Bruce Cleghorn CMG [2][3] 2006–2010: Boyd McCleary CMG CVO [2][3] 2010–2014: Simon Featherstone[2][4] 2014-2019: Victoria Treadell CMG MVO [5] 2019–2023: Charles Hay MVO [6] 2023–present[update]: Ailsa Terry CMG See also Malaysia–United Kingdom relations References "Nigel Farage? How does the UK appoint ambassadors?". BBC News. 22 November 2016. Colin Mackie. "Malaysia" (PDF). BRITISH AMBASSADORS AND HIGH COMMISSIONERS: 1880-2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2011. FCO (2 February 2006). "Change of British High Commissioner to Malaysia". Retrieved 22 April 2011. FCO (6 April 2010). "Change of British High Commissioner to Malaysia". Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2011. Foreign & Commonwealth Office (25 June 2014). "Change of High Commissioner to Malaysia". Foreign & Commonwealth Office (8 November 2018). "Change of British High Commissioner to Malaysia in April 2019". External links UK and Malaysia, gov.uk	High Commissioner	List
Mali	Bamako	Embassy	Katy Ransome	Ambassador	List
Malta	Valletta	High Commission	Cathy Ward	High Commissioner	List
Mauritania	Nouakchott	Embassy	Colin Wells	Ambassador	List
Mauritius	Port Louis	High Commission	Charlotte Pierre	High Commissioner	List
Mexico	Mexico City	Embassy	Jon Benjamin	Ambassador	List
Moldova	Chişinău	Embassy	Steven Fisher Fern Horine	Ambassador	List
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	Embassy	Fiona Blyth	Ambassador	List
Montenegro	Podgorica	Embassy	Dawn McKen	Ambassador	List
Morocco	Rabat	Embassy	Simon Martin	Ambassador	List
Mozambique	Maputo	High Commission	Helen Lewis	High Commissioner	List
Namibia	Windhoek	High Commission	Charles Moore	High Commissioner	List
Nepal	Kathmandu	Embassy	Robert Fenn	Ambassador	List
Netherlands	The Hague	Embassy	Joanna Roper	Ambassador	List
New Zealand	Wellington	High Commission	Iona Thomas	High Commissioner	List
Niger	Niamey	Embassy[note c]	Catherine Inglehearn	Ambassador
Nigeria	Abuja	High Commission	Catriona Laing	High Commissioner	List
North Korea	Pyongyang	Embassy	David Ellis	Ambassador	List
North Macedonia	Skopje	Embassy	Rachel Galloway	Ambassador	List
Norway	Oslo	Embassy	Jan Thompson	Ambassador	List
Oman	Muscat	Embassy	Dr. Liane Saunders OBE	Ambassador	List
Pakistan	Islamabad	High Commission	Jane Marriott	High Commissioner	List
Panama	Panama City	Embassy	James Dauris	Ambassador	List
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	High Commission	Keith Scott	High Commissioner	List
Paraguay	Asunción	Embassy	Ramin Navai	Ambassador	List
Peru	Lima	Embassy	Gavin Cook	Ambassador	List
Philippines	Manila	Embassy	Laure Beaufils	Ambassador	List
Poland	Warsaw	Embassy	Anna Clunes	Ambassador	List
Portugal	Lisbon	Embassy	Lisa Bandari	Ambassador	List
Qatar	Doha	Embassy	Neerav Patel	Ambassador	List
Romania	Bucharest	Embassy	Giles Portman	Ambassador	List
Russia	Moscow	Embassy	Nigel Casey	Ambassador	List
Rwanda	Kigali	High Commission	Omar Daair	High Commissioner	List
Samoa	Apia	High Commission	David Ward	High Commissioner	List
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Embassy	Neil Crompton	Ambassador	List
Senegal	Dakar	Embassy	Juliette John	Ambassador	List
Serbia	Belgrade	Embassy	Edward Ferguson	Ambassador	List
Seychelles	Victoria	High Commission	Jeff Glekin	High Commissioner	List
Sierra Leone	Freetown	High Commission	Simon Mustard	High Commissioner	List
Singapore	Singapore	High Commission	Kara Owen	High Commissioner	List
Slovakia	Bratislava	Embassy	Nigel Baker	Ambassador	List
Slovenia	Ljubljana	Embassy	Tiffany Sadler	Ambassador	List
Solomon Islands	Honiara	High Commission	Thomas Coward	High Commissioner	List
Somalia	Mogadishu	Embassy	Holly Tett	Ambassador	List
South Africa	Pretoria	High Commission	Antony Phillipson	High Commissioner	List
South Korea	Seoul	Embassy	Colin Crooks	Ambassador	List
South Sudan	Juba	Embassy	Guy Warrington	Ambassador	List
Spain	Madrid	Embassy	Hugh ElliottSir Alex Ellis	Ambassador	List
Sri Lanka	Colombo	High Commission	Sarah Hulton	High Commissioner	List
Sweden	Stockholm	Embassy	Samantha Job	Ambassador	List
Switzerland	Bern	Embassy	James Squire	Ambassador	List
Taiwan	Taipei	Office	John Dennis	Representative	List
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Embassy	Tim Jones	Ambassador	List
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	High Commission	David Concar	High Commissioner	List
Thailand	Bangkok	Embassy	Mark Gooding	Ambassador	List
Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	High Commissioner	Thorhilda Abbott-Watt	High Commissioner	List
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	High Commission	Harriet Cross	High Commissioner	List
Tunisia	Tunis	Embassy	Helen Winterton	Ambassador	List
Turkey	Ankara	Embassy	Jill Morris	Ambassador	List
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	Embassy	Lucia Wilde	Ambassador	List
Uganda	Kampala	High Commission	Kate Airey	High Commissioner	List
Ukraine	Kyiv	Embassy	Martin Harris	Ambassador	List
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Embassy	Edward Hobart	Ambassador	List
United States of America	Washington D.C.	Embassy	Dame Karen Pierce	Ambassador	List
Uruguay	Montevideo	Embassy	Faye O'Connor	Ambassador	List
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	Embassy	Timothy Smart	Ambassador	List
Vanuatu	Port Vila	High Commission	Karen Bell	High Commissioner	List
Venezuela	Caracas	Embassy	Colin Dick	Ambassador	List
Vietnam	Hanoi	Embassy	Iain Frew	Ambassador	List
Yemen	Sana'a	Embassy	Richard Oppenheim	Ambassador	List
Zambia	Lusaka	High Commission	Nicholas Wooley	High Commissioner	List
Zimbabwe	Harare	Embassy	Peter Vowles	Ambassador	List

^[note a] No diplomatic relations with Taiwan; office functions as an unofficial mission.

^[note b] In 2021 the UK government established a resident Ambassador in Chad based in the EU delegation office in N'Djamena^[1]

^[note b] In 2020 the UK government established a resident Ambassador in Niger based in the French Embassy compound in Niamey^[2]

Non-resident heads of mission

The United Kingdom does not maintain a full embassy or High Commission in a number of countries. In each of these cases the head of mission to another country, usually a neighbouring one, is also accredited to the other country (except, at present, for the ambassadors to Haiti and Honduras, who are dedicated but non-resident). In most cases a smaller, local mission provides for emergencies, and is headed by a lesser diplomat or a member of the local British community.

In April 2018 the Foreign Secretary announced the opening of nine new diplomatic posts across the Commonwealth.^[3] As a result, some countries which currently have non-resident High Commissioners are to receive resident High Commissioners. The expected dates of residence are noted below for those countries where an appointment has been announced.

Mission	Resident Country	Local Location	Local Mission	Non-Resident Head of mission	Local Position	List
Afghanistan	Qatar	None	N/A	Hugo Shorter	Chargé d'Affaires	List
Andorra	Spain	None	N/A	Hugh ElliottSir Alex Ellis	Ambassador
Antigua and Barbuda	Barbados	St John's	Honorary Consul	Scott Furssedonn-Wood	High Commissioner
Benin	Nigeria	None	N/A	Catriona Laing	Ambassador
Burkina Faso	Ghana	Ouagadougou	Honorary Consul	Harriet Thompson	Ambassador
Burundi	Rwanda	Bujumbura	Liaison Office	Omar Daair	Ambassador
Cape Verde	Senegal	São Vicente	Consul	Juliette John	Ambassador
Central African Republic	Cameroon	None	N/A	Barry Lowen	Ambassador
Comoros	Madagascar	Moroni	N/A	David Ashley	Ambassador
Republic of the Congo	Democratic Republic of Congo	Brazzaville	Honorary Consul	Emily Maltman	Ambassador
Djibouti	Ethiopia	Djibouti City	Honorary Consul	Darren Welch	Ambassador
Dominica	Barbados	Roseau	Honorary Consul	Scott Furssedonn-Wood	High Commissioner
East Timor	Indonesia	Jakarta	Honorary Consul	Dominic Jermey	Ambassador
Equatorial Guinea	Cameroon	Malabo	Honorary Consul	Barry Lowen	Ambassador
Grenada	Barbados	St George's	Honorary Consul	Scott Furssedonn-Wood	High Commissioner
Guinea-Bissau	Senegal	Bissau	Honorary Consul	Juliette John	Ambassador
Haiti	Dominican Republic	Port-au-Prince	Consul	Mockbul Ali	Ambassador	List
Honduras	Guatemala	Tegucigalpa	Honorary Consul	Thomas Carter	Ambassador	List
Kiribati	Fiji	None	N/A	Brian Jones	High Commissioner
Liechtenstein	Switzerland	None	N/A	James Squire	Ambassador
Maldives	Sri Lanka	Malé	Honorary Consul	Sarah Hulton	High Commissioner
Marshall Islands	Fiji	None	N/A	Brian Jones	Ambassador
Federated States of Micronesia	Fiji	None	N/A	Brian Jones	Ambassador
Monaco	France	Monaco	Honorary Consulate	Dame Menna Rawlings	Ambassador
Nauru	Solomon Islands	None	N/A	Thomas Coward	High Commissioner
Nicaragua	Costa Rica	Managua	Embassy	Ross Denny	Ambassador	List
Palau	Philippines	None	N/A	Laure Beaufils	Ambassador
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Barbados	Basseterre	Honorary Consul	Scott Furssedonn-Wood	High Commissioner
Saint Lucia	Barbados	Castries	High Commission	Scott Furssedonn-Wood	High Commissioner
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Barbados	Kingstown	Honorary Consul	Scott Furssedonn-Wood	High Commissioner
San Marino	Italy	Rome	Consulate-General	Edward Llewellyn, Baron Llewellyn of Steep	Ambassador
São Tomé and Príncipe	Angola	São Tomé	Consulate	Roger Stringer	Ambassador
Sudan	Ethiopia	None	N/A	Giles Lever	Ambassador
Suriname	Guyana	Paramaribo	Consulate	Jane Miller	Ambassador
Togo	Ghana	None	N/A	Harriet Thompson	Ambassador
Tuvalu	Fiji	None	N/A	Brian Jones	High Commissioner

Heads of mission to non-sovereign territories

Mission	Location	Type	Head of mission	Position	List	Notes
Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Consulate-General	Brian Davidson	Consul-General	List	Functions held by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (before 1968 Colonial Office), British Council and British Trade Commission prior to 1997
Jerusalem	East Jerusalem	Consulate-General	Philip Hall	Consul-General	List	Mission to the occupied Palestinian territories
Macau	Macau	Honorary Consulate	Glenn McCartney	Honorary Consul		Full consular services for Macau are provided via the Consulate in Hong Kong and the Consul-General to Hong Kong is the official diplomat for Macau

Heads of mission to international organisations

Mission	Location	Head of mission	Position	List
African Union	Addis Ababa	Darren Welch	Ambassador to Ethiopia also accredited as Permanent Representative	List
Association of Southeast Asian Nations	Jakarta	Sarah Tiffin	Ambassador
Conference on Disarmament	Geneva	Aidan Liddle	Permanent Representative	List
Council of Europe	Strasbourg	Sandy Moss	Permanent Representative	List
North Atlantic Treaty Organization	Brussels	David Quarrey	Permanent Representative	List
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development	Paris	Christopher Sharrock	Permanent Representative	List
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons	The Hague	Joanna Roper	Ambassador to the Netherlands also accredited as Permanent Representative	List
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe	Vienna	Neil Bush	Head of Delegation	List
United Nations in Geneva	Geneva	Simon Manley	Permanent Representative	List
United Nations in New York	New York City	Dame Barbara Woodward	Permanent Representative	List
United Nations agencies in Rome	Rome	Evelyn Ashton-Griffiths	Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations agencies in Rome
United Nations in Vienna	Vienna	Lindsay Skoll	Ambassador to Austria also accredited as Permanent Representative	List

See also

• List of ambassadors and high commissioners to the United Kingdom

References

1. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Chad: Mark Matthews". FCDO. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
2. "UK to open new embassies in Chad and Niger". FCDO. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
3. "Foreign Secretary expands UK Commonwealth diplomatic network". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 19 April 2018.