Harriet Mathews

Harriet Lucy Mathews, styled The Lady Frost CMG OBE (née Mathews; born Lilongwe, Malawi, 22 December 1973) is a British diplomat, with expertise on African affairs.

Career

Educated at South Hampstead High School before going up to the University of York, Mathews entered the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1997.[1]

Appointed Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Somalia in June 2015,[2] she served there until 30 December 2016.[3] Mathews then became Director of Policy at the Commonwealth Summit Unit, before being promoted FCO Director for Africa in 2018.[4]

Honours
  • (2005) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE);[5]
  • (2017) 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".[6]

Personal life

Married in 2018 to fellow diplomat David Frost, since his elevation to the peerage in 2020, she is formally styled The Lady Frost.[7]

See also

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. "My last view of #Mogadishu. Goodbye #Somalia, and good luck. I'll miss you". Harriet Mathews on Twitter. 30 December 2016.
  4. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Somalia". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 17 November 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.
  7. www.burkespeerage.com


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