Sarah MacIntosh


Sarah MacIntosh is a British diplomat who is the British Ambassador to NATO. She previously served as High Commissioner to Sierra Leone and Ambassador to Liberia from 2006 to 2008.

Biography

MacIntosh joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1991 and served at the UK missions to the UN in New York and Vienna, and in the British embassy in Madrid. She was strategy coordinator for the UN mission in Kosovo 2004–05, and High Commissioner to Sierra Leone 2006–08. She then took a fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University 2008–09. She was Director, Strategic Finance at the FCO 2009–11, Director, Defence and International Security 2011–14, and Director General, Defence and Intelligence 2014–16. In November 2016 the FCO announced that she had been appointed Permanent Representative to the United Kingdom’s Delegation to NATO. She took up the post in February 2017.