The Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

, and in charge of the ''United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations'' (UKMIS). UK

permanent representative A permanent representative is a diplomat who is the head of a country’s diplomatic mission to an international organisation. Organizations that receive permanent representatives from their member states include the United Nations, the World Tr ...

s to the UN hold the personal rank of

ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...

. The full official title and style is ''His Britannic Majesty's Permanent Representative from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations''. 1-dag

Permanent representatives to the United Nations

* 1946–1950: Sir Alexander Cadogan * 1950–1954: Sir Gladwyn Jebb * 1954–1960: Sir Pierson Dixon * 1960–1964: Sir Patrick Dean * 1964–1970:

Lord Caradon Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon (8 October 1907 – 5 September 1990) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and the last governor of British Cyprus. E ...

* 1970–1973: Sir Colin Crowe * 1973–1974: Sir Donald Maitland * 1974–1979: Lord Richard * 1979–1982:

Sir Anthony Parsons Sir Anthony Derrick Parsons (9 September 1922 – 12 August 1996) was a British diplomat, ambassador to Iran at the time of the Iranian Revolution and Permanent Representative to the UN at the time of the Falklands War. Career Anthony Par ...

* 1982–1987: Sir John Thomson * 1987–1990:

Sir Crispin Tickell Sir Crispin Charles Cervantes Tickell (25 August 1930 – 25 January 2022) was a British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic. Background Tickell was the son of writer Jerrard Tickell and Renée ( Haynes), a great-granddaughter of Thomas ...

* 1990–1995: Lord Hannay * 1995–1998: Sir John Weston * 1998–2003:

Sir Jeremy Greenstock Sir Jeremy Quentin Greenstock (born 27 July 1943) is a British retired diplomat, active from 1969 to 2004. Life and career Greenstock was educated at Harrow School and at Worcester College, Oxford. He was an assistant master at Eton College ...

* 2003–2007: Sir Emyr Jones Parry * 2007–2009: Sir John Sawers * 2009–2015: Sir Mark Lyall Grant * 2015–2018:

Matthew Rycroft Sir Matthew John Rycroft (; born 16 June 1968) is a British civil servant and diplomat serving as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office since 2020, appointed following the resignation of Sir Philip Rutnam. Rycroft previously se ...

* 2018–2020: Dame Karen Pierce * 2020–present: Dame Barbara Woodward

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UK Mission to the United Nations (New York)
{{Lists of heads of UK diplomatic missions

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United Kingdom and the United Nations

Permanent representatives to the United Nations

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