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Married to: Claire Turner
Children: Two
2017 – present No.10, Prime Minister’s International
Affairs Adviser and Deputy National Security Adviser
2016 – 2017 FCO, Director-General Middle-East and North
Africa, and Africa; Acting Political Director (2017)
2016 FCO, Director, London Syria Conference
2012 – 2016 Nairobi, British High Commissioner
2009 – 2012 FCO, Director, Middle-East and North Africa
2008 – 2009 FCO, Deputy Director, Middle-East and North
Africa
2007 – 2008 Cabinet Office, Director, Middle-East,
North Africa and North America, Overseas and Defence
Secretariat
2007 No.10, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
2006 – 2007 FCO roles including project work in
Middle-East and North Africa Directorate and for the
Special Representative for Climate Change
2003 – 2006 Washington, First Secretary, Energy and
Environment
1998 – 2003 Cabinet Office, roles including Deputy Team
Leader in Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Private
Secretary to the Minister of State, and Secretary to
the Economic and Domestic Committees of Cabinet.
