Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister since May 2017. Immediately prior to taking up this role, he was Director for Strategy, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1998 after a brief period as an academic at Oxford University. Before that, he had been working in the Home Office where he was responsible for counter-terrorism and security powers and policy. Prior to that he worked at the independent Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq conflict and for three years in the cabinet of the European Trade Commissioner, where he was responsible for trade negotiations with South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific regions and EU economic issues. He has also worked on a range of security and multilateral issues in the FCO and overseas.
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