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Sarah MacIntosh

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Dame Sarah MacIntosh
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to NATO
In office
February 2017 – April 2022
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Boris Johnson
Preceded byPaul Johnston (acting)
Succeeded byDavid Quarrey
British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone
British Ambassador to Liberia
In office
2006–2008
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Gordon Brown
Preceded byJohn Mitchiner
Succeeded byIan Hughes
Personal details
Born (1969-08-07) 7 August 1969 (age 55)

Dame Sarah MacIntosh DCMG (born 7 August 1969[citation needed]) is a British diplomat who is the Deputy National Security Adviser for International Affairs. She previously served as High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Ambassador to Liberia and British Ambassador to NATO from 2017 to 2022.

Biography

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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.[1] In November 2016 the FCO announced that she had been appointed Permanent Representative to the United Kingdom's Delegation to NATO.[2] She took up the post in February 2017.[3]

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.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ MacINTOSH, Sarah, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015, accessed 23 Nov 2016)
  2. ^ "Change of UK Permanent Representative to NATO". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Sarah MacIntosh CMG, UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council". gov.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
  4. ^ "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B3.
  5. ^ "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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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone
2006–2008
Succeeded by
Ian Hughes
British Ambassador to Liberia (non-resident)
2006–2008
Preceded by British Permanent Representative to NATO
2017–present
Incumbent