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