Kim Darroch
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His Excellency Sir Kim Darroch KCMG |
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| Her Majesty's Ambassador to the United States | |
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Assumed office January 2016 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| President |
Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Sir Peter Westmacott |
| United Kingdom National Security Advisor | |
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In office 23 January 2012 – 7 September 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Sir Peter Ricketts |
| Succeeded by | Sir Mark Lyall Grant |
| Her Majesty's Permanent Representative to the European Union | |
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In office July 2007 – 23 January 2012 |
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| Prime Minister |
Gordon Brown David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Sir John Grant |
| Succeeded by | Sir Jon Cunliffe |
| Personal details | |
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Nigel Kim Darroch 30 April 1954 County Durham, England |
Sir Nigel Kim Darroch KCMG (pronunciation: /ˈdærək/; born 30 April 1954) is a senior British diplomat, who since January 2016 has been Her Majesty's Ambassador to the United States.
Darroch was born in County Durham on 30 April 1954. He was educated at Abingdon School and at Durham University, from where he graduated with a BSc in Zoology.
Darroch joined the Foreign Office in 1976 after graduation, and he was appointed to the Diplomatic Service in 1980 to serve as a First Secretary in Tokyo from 1980–1984. He served in a number of posts, including as desk officer for the Channel Tunnel project and co-secretary of the UK-French Channel Tunnel Treaty Group, as private secretary to David Mellor and then The Lord Glenarthur as the FCO's Minister of State from 1987 to 1989, and as Counsellor for External Affairs at the British Permanent Representative to the European Union for a year before being promoted to Director as head of the FCO's press office in 1998.
In 2000, Darroch moved back to policy work as Director of EU Comd, and in 2003 promoted further to be Director-General, Europe. In 2004, he transferred to 10 Downing Street, as Head of the Cabinet Office European Secretariat, where he served as the Prime Minister's principal advisor on European affairs. After three years, Darroch was appointed to replace Sir John Grant (British diplomat) in Brussels, as British Permanent Representative to the European Union in 2007 for a four-year term.
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