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About Simon McDonald
Simon Gerard McDonald, Baron McDonald of Salford, is a British former diplomat who was the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service until September 2020. He was the last professional head of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office before the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He has been the Master of Christ's College, Cambridge since September 2022.
Everything about Simon McDonald →- Occupation
- diplomat
- Position held
- Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, ambassador of the United Kingdom to Germany, ambassador of the United Kingdom to Israel, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- March 9, 1961, 1961