Mark Sedwill
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Mark Sedwill CMG |
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Mark Sedwill
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| Permanent Secretary at the Home Office | |
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Assumed office 1 February 2013 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Helen Ghosh |
| Director-General, Political of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
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In office 2012–2013 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey Adams |
| Succeeded by | Simon Gass |
| Director, Afghanistan & Pakistan of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
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In office 2010–2012 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Karen Pierce |
| NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan | |
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In office January 2010 – June 2010 |
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| Prime Minister |
Gordon Brown David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Fernando Gentilini |
| Succeeded by | Simon Gass |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 October 1964 Ealing |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater |
University of St Andrews St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
Mark Philip Sedwill CMG (born 21 October 1964 in Ealing) is a British diplomat and civil servant, who served as the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010 and the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan in 2010. He has been the Permanent Secretary at the UK Home Office since 1 February 2013. On 27 February 2017, it was announced that in April he would replace Sir Mark Lyall Grant on his retirement as the UK National Security Adviser, and Sedwill would be replaced by Philip Rutnam.
Sedwill attended Bourne Grammar School in Bourne, Lincolnshire, becoming the Head Boy. He went to the University of St Andrews, where he gained a Bachelor of Science (BSc), and later gained a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Sedwill joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1989 and he served in the Security Coordination Department and the Gulf War Emergency Unit until 1991.
He was then posted in Cairo, Egypt, from 1991 to 1994 as a Second Secretary, then First Secretary in Iraq from 1996 to 1997 whilst serving as a United Nations weapons inspector, then in Nicosia, Cyprus, as First Secretary for Political-Military Affairs and Counterterrorism from 1997 to 1999. He was the Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Robin Cook and Jack Straw) from 2000 to 2002 in the runup to and preparations for the 2003 Iraq invasion.
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