Thomas Drew (diplomat)

Thomas Drew CMG (born 26 September 1970) is a senior British diplomat who was most recently British High Commissioner to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from February 2016 to November 2019.[1]

Career

Drew attended Charterhouse and then Trinity College, Oxford where he read Classics, graduating in 1993. He worked for McKinsey & Company for two-years before joining the Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1995. After one two-year posting, he spent one year on full-time Russian language training before being posted to the British Embassy, Moscow in 1998 as a Second (later First) Secretary to lead the mission's economics team.[2]

In 2002, Drew returned to London to head a unit running the UK's engagement with the EU inter-governmental conference that would eventually lead to the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. Once the conference concluded in 2004, Drew continued in the EU Enlargement and South East Group until 2006, after which he was posted as the Political Counsellor to the British High Commission, Islamabad.

In 2008, Drew was loaned to the Home Office to be the Director of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism for three years. Drew returned to the Foreign Office in 2011 as Director of National Security, before becoming Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary in 2012. In 2014 he left this post,[2] and in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2015 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) "for services to British foreign policy interests."[3]

During 2015 he was a Visiting Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute.[4] He was appointed High Commissioner to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, presenting his credentials of office in February 2016.[5]

Positions
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Peter Wilson		 Counsellor, Political, British Embassy Islamabad
2006–2008		 Succeeded by
Christopher Sainty
Preceded by
Unknown		 Director, Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism,
Home Office
2008–2011		 Succeeded by
Unknown
Preceded by
Tim Dowse		 Director, Intelligence and National Security,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
2011–2013		 Succeeded by
Laurie Bristow
Preceded by
Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby		 Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary
2012–2014		 Succeeded by
Martin Reynolds
Preceded by
Philip Barton		 High Commissioner to Pakistan
2016–2019		 Succeeded by
Christian Turner

References
  1. "Thomas Drew CMG". GOV.UK. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  2. "Drew, Thomas". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2013 (2013 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 21 August 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  3. "No. 61256". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2015. p. B4.
  4. "Thomas Drew CMG, British High Commissioner to Pakistan". gov.uk.
  5. "Change of British High Commissioner". British High Commission Islamabad. 11 February 2016.
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