Harriet Mathews

Harriet Lucy Mathews CMG OBE (born 22 December 1973) is a British diplomat.

Mathews was educated at South Hampstead High School and the University of York. She entered the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1997.[1] In June 2015 Mathews became the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Somalia.[2] In 2016 the FCO announced that she was to transfer to another Diplomatic Service appointment,[3] and she left Somalia on 30 December 2016.[4]

Mathews was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2005,[5] and Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) "for services to Diplomacy, International Peace and Security and the UK response to the Ebola crisis" in the 2017 New Year Honours.[6]

References

  1. ↑ MATHEWS, Harriet Lucy, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, 2017 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2016)
  2. ↑ "Press release: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Somalia". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Somalia". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 17 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "My last view of #Mogadishu. Goodbye #Somalia, and good luck. I'll miss you.". Harriet Mathews on Twitter. 30 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "No. 57665". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2005. p. 23.
  6. ↑ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N4.


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