List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Mozambique
The High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Mozambique is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Mozambique, in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Maputo.
This list is of the British heads of diplomatic missions to Mozambique since the country's independence from Portugal in 1975, including the British Ambassadors from 1975 to 1995.
High Commissioners to Mozambique
Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations exchange High Commissioners, rather than ambassadors. There are some technical differences, as Commonwealth countries are not foreign, but the two offices amount to much the same.
The following have served as British High Commissioner to Mozambique since 1995:
- 1996 to 2000: Bernard Everett CVO
- 2000 to 2003: Robert Dewar CMG
- 2003 to 2007: Howard Parkinson CVO
- 2007 to 2010: Andrew Soper
- 2010 to 2014: Shaun Cleary
- 2014 to present[update]: Joanna Kuenssberg[1]
Ambassadors to Mozambique
Between 1975 and 1995, Mozambique was an independent country but had not become a member of the Commonwealth, so British heads of mission to Maputo were styled Ambassadors:
- 1975 to 1979: John Lewen
- 1979 to 1980: Achilles Papadopoulos CMG
- 1980 to 1984: John Stewart[2]
- 1986 to 1989: James Allan CMG LVO MBE
- 1989 to 1992: Maeve Fort CMG, later Dame Maeve Fort DCVO DCMG
- 1992 to 1995: Richard Edis
