Antonia Romeo
| Antonia Romeo | |
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| Director-General, Economic and Domestic Secretariat, Cabinet Office |
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In office February 2015 – October 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Melanie Dawes |
| Succeeded by | Jonathan Slater |
| Her Majesty's Consul-General in New York | |
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Assumed office July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron Theresa May |
| Minister |
Philip Hammond Boris Johnson |
| Ambassador | Sir Kim Darroch |
| Preceded by | Danny Lopez |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Antonia Rice-Evans 1974-10-20 |
Antonia Romeo (born 20 October 1974) is a British civil servant. She is currently the British Consul-General in New York at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Director-General for Economic and Commercial Affairs in the USA for UK Trade & Investment.
Romeo was educated at North London Collegiate School and then Westminster School. From there she went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where she graduated with an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1996.
From Oxford, Romeo joined Oliver Wyman in 1996, where she worked for three years. Romeo then took an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, and in 2000 joined Her Majesty's Civil Service into the Lord Chancellor's Department as a professional economist. In 2004, Romeo became the head of the information rights division within the new Department for Constitutional Affairs, in charge of freedom of information and related government policies.
In 2006, Romeo became Principal Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor — initially The Lord Falconer, then from 2007 Jack Straw. In 2008, Romeo transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as the Director of Whitehall Liaison Department, responsible with the FCO's relations with intelligence agencies and other government departments.
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