Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
Arms of the United Kingdom
Incumbent Matthew Rycroft CMG since 25 April 2015
Style	His Excellency
Appointer	Queen Elizabeth II
Inaugural holder	Sir Alexander Cadogan
Formation	1946
Website	UK Mission to the United Nations (New York)

The Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the United Nations, and in charge of the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations (UKMIS). UK Permanent Representatives to the UN hold the personal rank of Ambassador. The full official title and style is:

• Her Britannic Majesty's Permanent Representative from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations.

Seat of the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations in One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second Avenue, New York City

Permanent Representatives to the United Nations

• 2015–present: Matthew Rycroft
• 2009–2015: Sir Mark Lyall Grant
• 2007–2009: Sir John Sawers
• 2003–2007: Sir Emyr Jones Parry
• 1998–2003: Sir Jeremy Greenstock
• 1995–1998: Sir John Weston
• 1990–1995: Sir David Hannay
• 1987–1990: Sir Crispin Tickell
• 1982–1987: Sir John Thomson
• 1979–1982: Sir Anthony Parsons
• 1974–1979: Lord Richard
• 1973–1974: Sir Donald Maitland
• 1970–1973: Sir Colin Crowe
• 1964–1970: Lord Caradon
• 1960–1964: Sir Patrick Dean
• 1954–1960: Sir Pierson Dixon
• 1950–1954: Sir Gladwyn Jebb
• 1946–1950: Sir Alexander Cadogan

See also

• United Kingdom and the United Nations

External links

• UK Mission to the United Nations (New York)