Sarah MacIntosh
Dame Sarah MacIntosh | |
|---|---|
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| High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Australia | |
| Assumed office April 2025 | |
| Monarch | Charles III |
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
| Preceded by | Victoria Treadell |
| Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 2022–2024 | |
| Monarchs | Elizabeth II Charles III |
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer |
| Preceded by | Sir David Quarrey (Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on International Affairs) |
| Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to NATO | |
| In office 2017–2022 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | Paul Johnston (acting) |
| Succeeded by | David Quarrey |
| British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone British Ambassador to Liberia | |
| In office 2006–2008 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | John Mitchiner |
| Succeeded by | Ian Hughes |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 August 1969 |
Dame Sarah MacIntosh DCMG (born 7 August 1969) is a British diplomat currently appointed Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.[1] She previously served as British High Commissioner to Australia and Head of the United Kingdom's Oceania Network and before that as High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Ambassador to Liberia and British Ambassador to NATO and then as the Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs.[2]
Biography
[edit]MacIntosh joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1991 and served at the UK missions to the UN in New York and Vienna, and in the British embassy in Madrid. She was strategy coordinator for the UN mission in Kosovo 2004–05, and High Commissioner to Sierra Leone (and non-resident Ambassador to Liberia) 2006–08. She then took a fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University 2008–09. She was Director, Strategic Finance at the FCO 2009–11, Director, Defence and International Security 2011–14, and Director General, Defence and Intelligence 2014–16.[3] In November 2016 the FCO announced that she had been appointed Permanent Representative to the United Kingdom's Delegation to NATO.[4] She took up the post in February 2017.[5]
From 2022 to 2024, MacIntosh served as Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs. She was then appointed British High Commissioner to Australia and Head of the United Kingdom's Oceania Network from April 2025.[2] In May 2026, she was appointed as the United Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, to take up her appointment in summer 2026.[1]
Already Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to British foreign policy.[6][7]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (21 May 2026). "Change of UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York: Sarah MacIntosh". GOV.UK. Retrieved 19 July 2026.
- 1 2 "Dame Sarah MacIntosh DCMG". GOV.UK. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ↑ MacINTOSH, Sarah, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015, accessed 23 Nov 2016)
- ↑ "Change of UK Permanent Representative to NATO". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ↑ "Sarah MacIntosh CMG, UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council". gov.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ↑ "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B3.
- ↑ "Order of St Michael and St George awards in the Birthday Honours Diplomatic Service and Overseas List 2020 - GOV.UK". assets.publishing.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
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