List of Ambassadors and High Commissioners to the United Kingdom
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The following is the list of Ambassadors and High Commissioners to the United Kingdom, or more formally, to the Court of St. James's
. The ambassadors to the United Kingdom
and High Commissioner
s of Commonwealth Realm
s are listed in order of arrival .
Court of St. James's
The Court of St James's is the royal court of the United Kingdom. It previously had the same function in the Kingdom of England and in the Kingdom of Great Britain .-Overview:...
. The ambassadors to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and High Commissioner
High Commissioner
High Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.The English term is also used to render various equivalent titles in other languages.-Bilateral diplomacy:...
s of Commonwealth Realm
Commonwealth Realm
A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth of Nations that has Elizabeth II as its monarch and head of state. The sixteen current realms have a combined land area of 18.8 million km² , and a population of 134 million, of which all, except about two million, live in the six...
s are listed in order of arrival .
- The Ambassador of Kuwait – Khaled Al Duwaisan (The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps)
- The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates – Easa Al Gurg Al GurgAl GurgEasa Saleh Al Gurg CBE, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the court of St. James and the Republic of Ireland, founded the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group in 1960 after gaining experience in banking and finance. The first business was the Grundig sole distributorship followed by the British...
- The High Commissioner of Guyana – Laleshwar SinghLaleshwar SinghLaleshwar Kumar Narayan Singh is the current High Commissioner from the Co-operative Republic of Guyana to the United Kingdom, as well as the non-resident ambassador in five other countries....
(The Senior High Commissioner) - The High Commissioner of Cameroon – Samuel Mbei
- The Ambassador of Oman – Hussain Ali Abdullatif
- The High Commissioner of the Solomon Islands – Robert Sisilo
- The High Commissioner of – Eldridge Stephens
- The High Commissioner of Botswana – Roy BlackbeardRoy BlackbeardRoy Warren Blackbeard is the current High Commissioner from the Republic of Botswana to the United Kingdom.After working for De Beers and Price Waterhouse, as well as operating his own company, he became a Member of the National Assembly of Botswana in 1989, representing Serowe North for the...
- The Ambassador of Lebanon – Jihad Mortada
- The Ambassador of the Republic of the Congo – Henri Marie Joseph Lopes
- The High Commissioner of The Bahamas – Basil O'Brien
- The Ambassador of Morocco – Her Highness Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui
- The Ambassador of Sudan – Hassan Abdin
- The High Commissioner of Sierra Leone – Sulaiman Tejan-JallohSulaiman Tejan-JallohSulaiman Tejan-Jalloh is a Sierra Leonean politician and ambassador. Tejan-Jalloh is also the former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. He previously served as minister of Transport and Communications from 1996-1997 under current president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's government in-exile during the...
- The High Commissioner of The Gambia – Gibril Seman Joof
- The Ambassador of Libya – Mohamed Abu Al Qasim Azwai
- The High Commissioner of – James Ernest Williams
- The Ambassador of Venezuela – Samuel Moncada
- The High Commissioner of – Cenio Lewis
- The Ambassador of Denmark – Tom Jensen
- The Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland – Bobby McDonagh
- The Ambassador of Azerbaijan – Rafael Ibrahimov
- The High Commissioner of Ghana – Isaac Osei
- The Ambassador of Mongolia – Dalrain Davaasambuu
- The High Commissioner of South Africa – Lindiwe Mabuza
- The Ambassador of Côte d'Ivoire – Youssoufou Bamba
- The Ambassador of Burkina Faso – Kadre Desire OuedraogoKadré Désiré OuedraogoKadré Désiré Ouedraogo served as Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 6 February 1996 to 7 November 2000. Since 2001, Ouedraogo has been ambassador to the United Kingdom....
- The High Commissioner of Brunei – Pengiran Haji Yunus
- The High Commissioner of Singapore – Michael Eng Cheng Teo
- The Ambassador of Kingdom of Romania – Dan Ghibernea
- The Ambassador of San Marino – Contessa Marina Meneghetti de Camillo
- The High Commissioner of Belize – Kamela Palma
- The Ambassador of Ethiopia – Fisseha Adugna
- The High Commissioner of Nigeria – Christopher KoladeChristopher KoladeHis Excellency Dr Christopher Kolade, CON completed his secondary school education at Government College, Ibadan after which he studied at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone....
- The High Commissioner of Tanzania – Hassan Omar Gumbo Kibelloh
- The High Commissioner of Mozambique – Antonio Gumende
- The High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea – Jean Lucilla Kekedo
- The Ambassador of Belgium – Baron Thierry de GrubenThierry de GrubenBaron Thierry de Gruben is the current Ambassador from the Kingdom of Belgium to the United Kingdom.He joined the Belgian diplomatic service in 1969 after studying law at the University of Leuven, being assigned to the NATO headquarters in Brussels, and then to the press department of the Ministry...
- The Ambassador of Kazakhstan – Kairat Abusseitov
- The Ambassador of Germany – Georg Boomgaarden
- The Ambassador of Lithuania – Oskaras Jusys
- The Ambassador of the People's Republic of China – Zha Peixin
- The High Commissioner of Canada – Mel Cappe
- The Ambassador of Hungary – Bela Szombati
- The Ambassador of Early Modern France – Maurice Gourdault-MontagneMaurice Gourdault-MontagneMaurice Gourdault-Montagne is a career diplomat and the current French Ambassador to Germany.-Career:Mr Gourdault-Montagne joined the French Foreign Ministry in 1978...
- The Ambassador of Chile – Mariano Fernández
- The Ambassador of Belarus – Alyaksei Mazhukhova
- The Ambassador of Luxembourg – Jean-Louis Wolzfeld
- The Ambassador of Independent State of Croatia – Josip Paro
- The Ambassador of Colombia – Alfonso Lopez-Caballero
- The Ambassador of Albania – Kastriot Robo
- The High Commissioner of Fiji – Emitai Lausiki Boladuadua
- The Ambassador of Iceland – Sverrir Haukur Gunnlaugsson
- The Ambassador of Thailand – Vikrom Koompirochana
- The Ambassador of Gabon – Alain Mensah-Zoguelet
- The Ambassador of Turkey – Mehmet Yiğit Alpogan
- The Ambassador of the Netherlands – Pim Waldeck
- The Ambassador of Brazil – José Maurício Bustani
- The Ambassador of Armenia – Vahe Gabrielyan
- The Ambassador of Eritrea – Negassi Sengal Ghebrezghi
- The Ambassador of Afghanistan – Ahmad Wali Masoud
- The High Commissioner of Zambia – Anderson Chibwa
- The Ambassador of Laos – Soutsakhone Pathammavong
- The Ambassador of Nepal – Suresh Chandra Chalise
- The Ambassador of Turkmenistan – Yazmurad Seryaev
- The Ambassador of the Philippines – Edgardo Espiritu
- The Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia – Marija Efremova
- The Ambassador of Togo – Tchao Sotou Bere
- The High Commissioner of Malaysia – Dato’ Abdul Aziz Mohammed
- The High Commissioner of Pakistan – Maleeha Lodhi
- The Ambassador of the North Korea – Ri Yong Ho
- The Ambassador of Uzbekistan – Tukhtapulat Tursunovich Riskiev
- The Ambassador of Vietnam – Trinh Duc Du
- The Ambassador of Mali – Ibrahim Bocar Ba
- The High Commissioner of Barbados – Hugh Anthony Arthur
- The Ambassador of Argentina – Federico Mirré
- The Ambassador of Niger – Adamou Seydou
- The Ambassador of Portugal – Fernando Andresen Guimarães
- The High Commissioner of Kenya – Joseph Kirugumi Muchemi
- The High Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago – Glenda Morean-Phillip
- The Ambassador of Greece – Anastase Scopelitis
- The Ambassador of Benin – Edgar-Yves Monnou
- The Ambassador of Mexico – Juan Bremer de Martino
- The Ambassador of Italy – Giancarlo Aragona
- The Ambassador of Georgia (country) – Giorgi Badridze
- The Ambassador of Senegal – General Mamadou Niang
- The Ambassador of Bolivia – Gonzalo Montenegro
- The Ambassador of Israel – Ron Prosor
- The Ambassador of Spain – Carlos Miranda, Count of Casa Miranda
- The High Commissioner of Seychelles – Callixte d'Offay
- The High Commissioner of India – Nalin Suire
- The Ambassador of Egypt – Hatem Seif El Nasr
- The Ambassador of Uruguay – Ricardo Varela
- The Ambassador of Iraq – Salah Al Shaikhly
- The Ambassador of Poland – Zbigniew Matuszewski
- The High Commissioner of Antigua and Barbuda – Carl Roberts
- The Ambassador of Cambodia – Hor Nambora
- The Ambassador of Japan – Shin Ebihara
- The High Commissioner of Cyprus – Petros Eftychiou
- The Ambassador of Switzerland – Alexis Lautenberg
- The Ambassador of Slovenia – Iztok Jarc
- The Ambassador of Sweden – Staffan Carlsson
- The High Commissioner of the Maldives – Hassan Sobir
- The Ambassador of Syria – Sami KhiyamiSami KhiyamiSami Khiyami is a Syrian diplomat, currently Syrian ambassador to London.-Background:Khiyami studied at university in Beirut, Lebanon, and Lyon, France. An electronics expert by training, he has held a number of professional roles, including senior advisor to the Syrian banking industry and a...
- The Ambassador of Serbia – Dr. Dejan Popovic
- The Ambassador of Peru – Luis Solari Tudela
- The Ambassador of Finland – Jaakko Laajava
- The Ambassador of Latvia – Indulis Bērzinš
- The Ambassador of Moldova – Mariana Durlešteanu
- The High Commissioner of Sri Lanka – Kshenuka Senewiratne
- The Ambassador of Tunisia – Mohamed Ghariani
- The Apostolic Nuncio to United Kingdom – Archbishop Faustino Sainz MuñozFaustino Sainz MuñozFaustino Sainz Muñoz is a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Nuncio to Great Britain from 2004 until December 2010, having been appointed by Pope John Paul II in 2004.-Biography:...
- The Apostolic NuncioApostolic Nuncio to IrelandThe Holy See, as the central government of the Catholic Church , has full diplomatic ties with Ireland as well as many other countries worldwide. The current Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland is Archbishop-elect Monsignor Charles John Brown...
to Republic of Ireland (including Northern Ireland) – Giuseppe LazzarottoGiuseppe LazzarottoGiuseppe Lazzarotto JCD was born in Carpanè, Italy on 24 May 1942. He studied for the priesthood in the Diocese of Padua, being ordained a priest on 1 April 1967. He undertook post-graduate studies in diplomacy at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome, while at the same time completing his... - The High Commissioner of Australia – Richard Kenneth Robert Alston
- The High Commissioner of Namibia – Ringo Abed
- The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic – Anibal de Castro
- The Ambassador of Suriname – Edgar Stephanus Raghoenath Amanh
- The Ambassador of the South Korea – Yoon-Je Cho
- The High Commissioner of Malta – Michael Refalo
- The Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Mrs. Jadranka Negodic
- The Ambassador of Djibouti – Rachad Farah
- The Ambassador of Panama – Liliana Fernándes
- The High Commissioner of New Zealand – Jonathan Hunt
- The Ambassador of Guinea – Lansana Keïta
- The High Commissioner of Jamaica – Gail Mathurin
- The Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea – Agustin Nze Nfumu
- The Ambassador of Myanmar – U Nay Win
- The Ambassador of Russia – Yury Viktorovich Fedotov
- The High Commissioner of Swaziland – Mary Madzandza Kanya
- The Ambassador of Kingdom of Bulgaria – Lachezar Nikolov Matev
- The Ambassador of Nicaragua – Piero Paolo Coen Ubilla
- The Ambassador of Norway – Bjarne LindstrømBjarne LindstrømBjarne Lindstrøm is a Norwegian diplomat.He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1962. He was the consul-general in Cape Town, South Africa from 1986 to 1990, deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1996, permanent under-secretary...
- The Ambassador of Mauritania – Ould Moctar Neche Mélaïnine
- The Ambassador of the United States – Louis SusmanLouis SusmanLouis B. Susman is an American lawyer, retired investment banker, and the current United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Nominated by President Barack Obama, he was confirmed by the Senate on July 10, 2009, and sworn in by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.Susman is a longtime and...
- The Ambassador of Qatar – Khalid bin Rashid bin Salim Al-Hamoudi Al-Mansouri
- The Ambassador of the Czech Republic – Jan Winkler
- The High Commissioner of Lesotho – HRH Prince Seeiso Bereng Seeiso
- The Ambassador of Cuba – René Juan Mujica Cantelar
- The Ambassador of Algeria – Mohamed Salah Dembri
- The High Commissioner of Bangladesh – Sabihuddin Ahmed
- The Ambassador of Austria – Gabriele Matzner-Holzer
- The Ambassador of Zimbabwe – Gabriel Mharadze Machinga
- The High Commissioner of Grenada – Joseph Stephen Charter
- The High Commissioner of Rwanda – Claver Gatete
- The Ambassador of Angola – Ana Maria Teles CarreiraAna Maria Teles CarreiraAna Maria Teles Carreira is the ambassador of Angola to the United Kingdom. She has a Law degree, an MA in Diplomatic Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of London at the University of Westminster, and is a career diplomat in the Angolan Foreign Service...
- The Ambassador of El Salvador – Dr Roberto Avila-Avilez
- The Ambassador of the – Eugénie Tshiela Compton
- The Ambassador of Yemen – Mohamed Taha Mustafa
- The Ambassador of Saudi Arabia – HRH Prince Mohammed Bin Nawaf Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud
- The High Commissioner of Mauritius – Abhimanu Mahendra Kundasamy
- The Ambassador of Indonesia – Raden Mohammad Marty Muliana Natalegawa
- The Ambassador of Ukraine – Ihor Kharchenko
- The High Commissioner of Tonga – Sione Ngongo KioaSione Ngongo KioaSione Ngongo Kioa is a Tongan diplomat and is currently the High Commissioner of the Kingdom of Tonga to the United Kingdom...
- The High Commissioner of Malawi – Francis Moto. Note: The duties were being carried out by the acting High commissioner, Flossie Gomile-Chidyaonga. However she was expelled in April, 2011.
- The Ambassador of Liberia – Wesley Momo JohnsonWesley Momo JohnsonWesley Momo Johnson is a Liberian politician. He served as Vice-Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia from 14 October 2003 to 16 January 2006.He is currently the Liberian Ambassador to the United Kingdom....