Our directorates

These are the FCO's eight directorates and the departments they contain and who runs them.

Europe & Globalisation

Director General: Simon Fraser

Africa

  • Equatorial
  • Southern
  • Pan Africa policy
  • Sudan

Director: Andrew Lloyd 

EU

  • economic & Central Europe
  • enlargement & South Eastern Europe
  • future of Europe
  • justice & home affairs

Director: Shan Morgan

European political affairs

  • common foreign & security policy
  • western Balkans
  • western Mediterranean
  • external relations
  • Turkey & Cyprus

Director: Anthony Smith

Global and economic issues

  • climate change & energy
  • sustainable development and business
  • global economy
  • science & innovation

Director: Scott Wightman

Asia Pacific

  • Far Eastern
  • South East Asia & pacific

Director: Sebastian Wood

Defence & Intelligence

Director General: Mariot Leslie

Defence & strategic threats

  • counter proliferation
  • counter terrorism policy
  • drugs & international crime
  • security policy (nuclear & arms control)

Director: Simon Manley

Overseas territories

  • Southern Oceans
  • Caribbean, Bermuda & policy
  • Polar regions

Director: Colin Roberts

America

  • Caribbean, Mexico & Central America
  • North America
  • South America

Director: Chris Wood

Political

Director General: Mark Lyall Grant

Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia

Director: Michael Davenport

Asia

  • Sri Lanka, Bangladesh & the Maldives
  • India, Nepal & Bhutan
  • Indo-Pakistan relations
  • Shanghai Expo 2010

Director: John Dennis

Middle East and North Africa

  • Arabian Peninsular
  • Arab/Israel & North Africa
  • Iran co-ordinator
  • Iraq

Director: John Jenkins

International Security

  • security policy
  • conflict issues
  • UN & other international organisations
  • human rights, democracy and governance
  • Commonwealth

Director: Stephen Pattison

South Asia and Afghanistan

  • Afghanistan
  • South Asia
  • Afghan drugs interdepartmental unit

Director: Adam Thomson

Information and Technology

Chief Information Officer: Tony Mather 

  • information, strategy & management
  • information assurance
  • enterprise architecture
  • programmes
  • IT resources & contracts management
  • IT service operations

Permanent Under-Secretary 

Permanent Under-Secretary: Peter Ricketts

Communications

  • press office
  • speech writers
  • internal communications
  • public diplomacy
  • strategic communications
  • UK stakeholder outreach

Director: Lucian Hudson

Other areas reporting to the Permanent Under-Secretary

• policy planners
• research analysts
• legal adviser
• Special representative for climate change

Change and Delivery

Director General: James Bevan

Change Unit

Director: Louise Boyle

Protocol

  • ceremonial section
  • conferences & events
  • diplomatic and VIP security
  • diplomatic missions & international organisations
  • government hospitality
  • honours secretariat
  • Royal households secretariat
  • visits

Director: Sarah Gillett

Human resources

  • HR operations
  • Radical
  • corporate services

Director: Susan Le Jeune

Consular services

  • assistance
  • crises
  • passports & documentary services
  • strategy, communications and training
  • resources

Director: Rob Macaire

Migration

Director: Judith Macgregor

  • UK Border Agency
  • network operations 
  • business development
  • corporate services

Director: Mark Sedwill

Diversity and equality

Advisor: Michael Shearer

Finance

Director General: Keith Luck

Shared services

Director: Diane Corner

FCO Services

  • business development
  • estate & security
  • finance
  • human resources
  • ICT
  • services & logistics

Director: Chris Moxey

Security and estates

  • estates strategy
  • major estates projects
  • home estate
  • overseas security
  • home security
  • personnel security
  • technical security
  • security training

Director: Andrew Noble

Other finance areas

  • comprehensive spending review
  • financial planning
  • financial skills
  • five star finance
  • internal audit
  • procurement strategy
  • resource accounting
  • trading fund

UK Trade and & Investment (including from 1st April 08, UKTI Defence & Security Organisation)

Chief Executive: Andrew Cahn

Deputy Chief Executive: Susan Haird

Sectors and Interim Head of UKTI DSO

Managing Director: Dominic Jermey

Marketing

Managing Director: Danny Lopez

Finance

Director of Finance: Curtis Juman

Business

Managing Director: Brian Shaw

Contact us

Main switchboard / General enquiries
020 7008 1500

FCO head office
King Charles Street
London SW1A 2AH

See Also

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