| Office | High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Australia |
|---|---|
| Prime minister | Keir Starmer |
| Term start | April 2025 |
| Predecessor | Victoria Treadell |
| Office 1 | Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs |
| Term start 1 | 2022 |
| Term end 1 | 2024 |
| Predecessor 1 | Sir David Quarrey (Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on International Affairs) |
| Prime minister 1 | Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer |
| Monarch 1 | Elizabeth II Charles III |
| Office 2 | Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to NATO |
| Term start 2 | 2017 |
| Term end 2 | 2022 |
| Predecessor 2 | Paul Johnston (acting) |
| Successor 2 | David Quarrey |
| Prime minister 2 | Theresa May Boris Johnson |
| Monarch 2 | Elizabeth II |
| Birth date | 7 August 1969 (age 57) |
| Office 3 | British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone British Ambassador to Liberia |
| Monarch 3 | Elizabeth II |
| Predecessor 3 | John Mitchiner |
| Prime minister 3 | Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
| Term start 3 | 2006 |
| Term end 3 | 2008 |
| Successor 3 | Ian Hughes |
| Monarch | Charles III |
| Honorific prefix | Her Excellency |
Dame Sarah MacIntosh (born 7 August 1969) is a British diplomat currently appointed British High Commissioner to Australia and Head of the United Kingdom’s Oceania Network from April 2025.[1] She previously served as the Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2024 and prior to that as High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Ambassador to Liberia and British Ambassador to NATO from 2017 to 2022.
Biography
MacIntosh joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1991 and served at the UK missions to the UN in New York and Vienna, and in the British embassy in Madrid. She was strategy coordinator for the UN mission in Kosovo 2004–05, and High Commissioner to Sierra Leone (and non-resident Ambassador to Liberia) 2006–08. She then took a fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University 2008–09. She was Director, Strategic Finance at the FCO 2009–11, Director, Defence and International Security 2011–14, and Director General, Defence and Intelligence 2014–16.[2] In November 2016 the FCO announced that she had been appointed Permanent Representative to the United Kingdom's Delegation to NATO.[3] She took up the post in February 2017.[4]
Already Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to British foreign policy.[5][6]
References
- ^ "Dame Sarah MacIntosh DCMG". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
- ^ MacINTOSH, Sarah, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015, accessed 23 Nov 2016)
- ^ "Change of UK Permanent Representative to NATO". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ^ "Sarah MacIntosh CMG, UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council". gov.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ^ No. 63135. 10 October 2020. p. B3.
- ^ "Order of St Michael and St George awards in the Birthday Honours Diplomatic Service and Overseas List 2020 - GOV.UK". assets.publishing.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-10-09.