Kate Airey
Kate Airey | |
|---|---|
| British High Commissioner to Uganda | |
| Assumed office December 2020 | |
| Monarchs | Elizabeth II Charles III |
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson Liz Truss |
| Preceded by | Peter West |
| British High Commissioner to Namibia | |
| In office January 2018 – November 2020 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | Joanne Lomas |
| Succeeded by | Charles Moore |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Birmingham |
| Spouse | Duncan Low |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BSc) |
Kate Airey OBE is a British diplomat serving as the British High Commissioner to Uganda since November 2020.
Early life[edit]
She was born and raised in Birmingham, UK and graduated from University of Oxford in 1999 with a BSc in Geography.[1]
Career[edit]
She began her career working at Oxfam in September 1999 and moved to Shell International a year later, working as a Senior Consultant in Africa and Europe.
Airey joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2005, and had roles in London including Africa Energy Adviser, Lead on Strategy, and Lead on Prosperity.
She held postings overseas in Abuja, Nigeria between 2007 and 2010 and was based in Freetown, Sierra Leone between 2014 and 2015, leading the response to the Ebola crisis both in Freetown as Deputy Head of the UK response and in London as Head of the FCDO Ebola Task Force, coordinating the UK end of the Foreign Policy response. For her work, she received an OBE in the Queen's New Years Honours in 2016.[2][3]
She moved onto Namibia as the Head of the Nigeria Whitehall Unit, before becoming British High Commissioner to Namibia in Windhoek in November 2017, and started in January 2018.[4]
She was appointed British High Commissioner to Uganda at the end of 2019, and started in November 2020.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Kate Airey LinkedIn".
- ^ "NEW YEAR HONOURS 2016 DIPLOMATIC SERVICE AND OVERSEAS LIST" (PDF) (Press release). UK Government.
- ^ "Ebola fight in Sierra Leone: Ex-UK diplomat gets 'Order of British Empire'". 17 June 2017.
- ^ "People - Kate Airey". HM Government. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- ^ "Kate Airey".