Date Role
2021-2023 FCDO, Staff Counsellor
2017-2021 FCDO, Strategy Director and Strategic Programmes Coordinator
2015-2017 Cabinet Office, Director General, Capabilities and Engagement, National Security Secretariat and Chilcot Lessons Learned Coordinator
2014-2015 Cabinet Office, Acting Deputy National Security Adviser
2012-2014 Cabinet Office, Director, Foreign and Defence Policy, and Afghanistan/Pakistan Coordinator
2011-2012 FCO, Additional Director, Middle East and North Africa Directorate
(MENAD)
2009-2010 FCO, Head, Counter Proliferation Department
2006-2009 FCO, Head, Consular Crisis Group
2005-2006 FCO, Strategic Challenges Lead, Comprehensive Spending Review Team
2003-2004 Northern Iraq: Secondment to US northern region team, Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, latterly Regional Coordinator (Northern Region), Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
2000-2003 Ankara, First Secretary (Political) later Head of Political Section, and British negotiator for the Northern Iraq Kurdish Peace Process
1993-2000 Postings to Kuwait and Egypt; Desk Officer for Central America; secondment to the United Nations Observer Team in El Salvador
Place of Birth: Cardiff, UK