His Excellency the Right Honourable The Lord Llewellyn of Steep OBE PC |
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Her Majesty's Ambassador to France | |
Assumed office 9 November 2016 as Edward Llewellyn |
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Monarch | Elizabeth II |
President |
Francois Hollande Emmanuel Macron |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Sir Julian King |
Downing Street Chief of Staff | |
In office 11 May 2010 – 13 July 2016 |
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Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Deputy | Catherine Fall |
Preceded by | Jeremy Heywood |
Succeeded by |
Fiona Hill Nick Timothy |
Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Opposition | |
In office 6 December 2005 – 11 May 2010 |
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Leader | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Stephen Sherbourne |
Succeeded by | Anna Healy |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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Assumed office 20 October 2016 Life Peerage |
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Personal details | |
Born | 23 September 1965 |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Education | Eton College |
Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
Edward David Gerard Llewellyn, Baron Llewellyn of Steep, OBE, PC (born 23 September 1965) is Her Majesty's Ambassador to France. He took up the post on 9 November 2016. Formerly a British political adviser, he was the Downing Street Chief of Staff under former Prime Minister David Cameron.
He attended Eton College at the same time as Cameron, though Llewellyn was two years above him. Llewellyn left Eton in 1983 and spent a brief amount of time working at Conservative Central Office, before studying at New College, Oxford, where he was steward (i.e. president) of the College JCR. New College contemporaries included Rageh Omaar, Steve Hilton and Ian Katz.
After leaving Oxford, he was employed as an aide to former Governor Chris Patten in Hong Kong, as Patten's 'Chef de Cabinet' following Patten's appointment as a European Commissioner, and then to the former Liberal Democrat Leader Paddy Ashdown in his role as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.