Thomas Drew (diplomat)

Thomas Drew CMG (born 26 September 1970) is a British diplomat who is High Commissioner to Pakistan.[1][2]

Career

Drew attended Charterhouse and then Trinity College, Oxford where he read Classics, graduating in 1993. He worked for McKinsey & Company for two years before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a Second Secretary in 1995. After one two-year posting, he learnt Russian and was posted to Moscow in 1998 as a Second, and later a First Secretary.[1]

In 2002 Drew returned to London to head a unit running the UK's engagement with the EU inter-governmental conference that led to the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. Once the conference was held in 2004, he continued in the Foreign Office's EU Enlargement group until 2006, when he was posted as the Political Counsellor in Islamabad.

In 2008, Drew was appointed on loan to the Home Office as their Director of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism for three years. Drew returned to the Foreign Office in 2011 as Director of National Security, before replacing Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby as Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary in 2012. In 2015 he left this post, for which in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2015 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).[1][2] He was appointed High Commissioner to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from February 2016.[3]

Positions

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Peter Wilson
Counsellor, Political, British Embassy Islamabad
2006–2008
Succeeded by
Christopher Sainty
Preceded by
Unknown
Director, Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism,
Home Office

2008–2011
Succeeded by
Unknown
Preceded by
Tim Dowse
Director, Intelligence and National Security,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office

2011–2012
Succeeded by
Laurie Bristow
Preceded by
Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby
Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary
2012–2015
Succeeded by
Martin Reynolds
Preceded by
Philip Barton
High Commissioner to Pakistan
2016–present
Incumbent

References

  1. 1 2 3 A & C Black (2013). "DREW, Thomas". Who's Who 2013, online edition. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
  2. 1 2 United Kingdom:The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 61256. pp. B1–B40. 12 June 2015.
  3. "Change of British High Commissioner". British High Commission Islamabad. 11 February 2016.
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