His Excellency
Simon Manley
CMG
Her Majesty's Ambassador to Spain
In office
October 2013 – August 2019
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Preceded byGiles Paxman
Succeeded byHugh Elliott
Personal details
Born
Simon John Manley

(1967-09-18) 18 September 1967
United Kingdom
Children3
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
Yale University

Simon John Manley CMG (born 18 September 1967) is a British diplomat, now the UK Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN in Geneva and previously Ambassador to Spain from October 2013 to August 2019.[1]

Early life

Manley was educated at Montpelier Primary School, Latymer Upper School, Magdalen College Oxford and Yale University.[2]

Career

Manley joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1990. Before his posting to Madrid, he served as Director Europe at the FCO (2011-2013), responsible for policy toward the EU. He has been posted to the UK's Mission to the United Nations in New York City (1993-1998), where he worked on Yugoslavia and UN reform, and has twice been seconded to the European Union: to the European Commission (2003) and to the Council of the EU (1998-2002).

In March 2020 Manley was appointed Director-General for COVID-19 at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, leading and coordinating HMG's coronavirus rollout.[3]

References

  1. ↑ New British Ambassador arrives in Madrid, British Embassy Madrid, 28 October 2013
  2. ↑ MANLEY, Simon John, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
  3. ↑ "Simon Manley CMG". Gov.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2020.



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