The Queen’s birthday honours are published each year on the Sovereign’s official birthday. They reflect and pay tribute to outstanding achievement and service.

This is the birthday honours awarded in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List for 2008.

Order of St Michael and St George

D/KCMG

Geoffrey Doyne ADAMS, CMG
HM Ambassador, Iran

Nigel Kim DARROCH, CMG
UK Permanent Representative, Brussels

CMG

Michael David APTED
For services to the British film and television industries, USA

Nigel Conrad CHAPMAN
Director of the BBC World Service and Chair of the BBC World Service Trust.  For services to international broadcasting

Michael James CRAWFORD                   
Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Karen Elizabeth PIERCE (Mrs ROXBURGH)                
UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York

Mark SEDWILL
Lately Director, UKVisas, Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Home Office

David Arthur SLINN, OBE   
Lately Head, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Helmand, Afghanistan
           
Anthony Donald Raymond SMITH
Director, European Political Affairs, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Nicholas Simon SYRETT
Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Knight Bachelor

Dr Richard John ROBERTS
For services to moleculor biology and UK science, USA

Order of the British Empire

CBE

Rajinder LOOMBA                
For charitable services to poor widows and their children overseas particularly India, and to UK/India interests more widely

Richard Charles PERRY, OBE                
Vice President, Cable and Wireless Network Planning, UK

Dr Oliver Wolf SACKS
Physician, author and academic.  For services to medicine

OBE

David William ALDERDICE
Lately Director, British Council, Iraq

Victoria Elizabeth BILLING
Deputy Consul General, British Consulate-General, Jerusalem

Hazel CAMERON
Lately First Secretary (Civil Justice and Rights), Office of the UK Permanent Representative to the European Union, Brussels

David Gratton CAMPBELL
For services to education and development in East Africa  

Dr George William Hunter CAUTHERLEY
For services to public policy development in Hong Kong

Gillian Angela DARE
Lately First Secretary Political, British Embassy, Harare

Paul Tobias DOUBLEDAY
Director, British Council, Syria

Stephen John Richard GILMAN
For British commercial interests in Asia

Alison Jill GORDON
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Mark Timothy Bundy GORE
Head of Education, British Council, Delhi

Dr David Michael HAINES
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dr Derek Charles HATHAWAY
For services to charitable interests in the UK

Angus Francis JACKSON
For reconstruction efforts in Southern Iraq

Professor Judith Mary Longstaff MACKAY, MBE
For services to tobacco control in Asia

James MCGILLIGAN
For services to social causes and the use of alternative energy in rural communities in India

Paul David NOON
Lately Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy, Kinshasa

John Richard RICHARDSON
For services to British business interests in Libya

John Edward RYAN
For services to business interests and the community in Montserrat

Vandana SAXENA PORIA
For services to British trade and investment in India

Ian Paul SIMMONS
Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Emma Morgan SKY, MBE
Political Advisor to the Commander of Multinational Corps-Iraq.  For services to UK-Iraq and UK-US relations

Professor Glyndwr Alan VALE
For services to controlling and eradicating tsetse flies in Africa

Alexander Eric VINES
Founding Head of the Africa Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Mark William WARDLE
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Peter Michael WENTWORTH
For services to British commercial interests in Malaysia

Anna WINTOUR
Editor in Chief of Vogue, USA.  For services to British journalism and British fashion in the USA

MBE

Carlton Llewelyn ALLEN
For philanthropic activities in Montserrat

Claire Elizabeth BORRELL
For services to victims of domestic violence in Gibraltar

Thomas John BURKE
Lately Second Secretary, British Consulate General, Istanbul

Alison Clare CATTANACH
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Peter Lloyd CHANDLER
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Betty Jean CHRISTIAN
Lately Island Secretary and Communications Officer, Pitcairn Island.  For public service

Adrian James CLARKE
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sarah Jane DEAN
For services to the education of deprived children in Zambia

Joan Elizabeth DILLAS-WRIGHT
For services to healthcare in Bermuda

Pastor Peter DOBSON
For services to the British community in Tunisia

Jonathan Charles DOUGLAS
For services to the British arts in Hong Kong

Kim GOULD
Lately Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy, Asmara

Stephen David GRAHAM
First Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Leslie GREAVES
For services to ex-service men and women in Germany

James HARKINS
For services to humanitarian aid overseas, especially Bosnia

Professor Iraj HASHI
For services to education and economic reconstruction in Kosovo

William Robert HENDERSON, LVO
Lately Consul, British Consulate, Portimao

Stefan Alexander HOWELLS
For services to sport and human and social development in southern Africa

Stephen HOWLAND
For services to British education in the Middle East

Helen LAM YIM Kit Ling
Professional Assistant to the Director, British Council, Hong Kong

Shalini MAHTANI
For services to corporate social responsibility in Hong Kong

Norma MARTINDALE
For services to British nationals in Tenerife

James MCDONALD Checa
For services to British-Peruvian relations, the British community and the arts in Peru

Clive John MENDEZ
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court, Gibraltar.  For services to the judiciary

Kalid MUHMOOD
For services to education in Vietnam

Harry Edward Maughn MURPHY
For services to sport in Gibraltar

Goona NAIDU
For services to British ex-service men and women in France

Diane Cheryl PERRY
For services to education in Brussels

Elizabeth RAMSAY
Client Relations Manager, British Council, Sydney

William ROBINSON
Lately Chief Security Officer, British High Commission, New Delhi

Pastor Winston Audley ROSE
For services to the community in the Cayman Islands

Patrick George Martin SHERWOOD
For services to the British Hospital in Montevideo

Anita Jane SMITH
For charitable services to the Bansang Hospital in Gambia

Paul Henry Richard SMITH
Director General of Civil Aviation, Cayman Islands.  For services to the aviation industry

Dr Christopher Malcolm STUBBS
For services to mentally handicapped children and families in Sri Lanka

David Leckie THOMAS
For services to the construction of village schools in Nepal

Jane WALKER
For services to disadvantaged children in the Philippines

David George WELLS
Overseas Security Manager, British High Commission, Karachi

Brian Gordon James WILKIE
For services to British commercial interests and charitable activities in the United Arab Emirates

Robin Wilfrid WOODS
For services to the conservation of wildlife in the Falkland Islands