Press release
Mr Nicholas Hopton has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Libya in succession to Mr Martin Reynolds CMG.
Full name: Nicholas Dunster Hopton
Married to: Alejandra Hopton de Echenique
Children: 5
| 2019 to present | Tripoli, Chargé d’Affaires |
| 2019 | FCO, Director, EU (External and Security) |
| 2016 to 2018 | Tehran, Her Majesty’s Ambassador |
| 2015 to 2016 | Tehran, Chargé d’Affaires |
| 2013 to 2015 | Doha, Her Majesty’s Ambassador |
| 2012 to 2013 | Sana’a, Her Majesty’s Ambassador |
| 2011 | Full-Time Language Training (Arabic) |
| 2011 | Director (Acting) Multilateral Policy Directorate |
| 2008 to 2011 | FCO, Head, International Organisations Department |
| 2008 | No 10, Policy Unit |
| 2007 to 2008 | Cabinet Office, National Security Strategy Team |
| 2003 to 2007 | Paris, Counsellor (EU and Economic) |
| 2000 to 2003 | Rome, First Secretary (Foreign and Security Policy) |
| 1998 to 2000 | FCO, Private Secretary to the Minister for Europe |
| 1997 to 1998 | FCO, Agenda 2000 Section Head, European Union Department (Internal) |
| 1995 to 1997 | FCO, Press Officer, News Department / Resource Planning Department |
| 1991 to 1995 | Rabat (and Nouakchott), Second Secretary (Political/ Information) |
| 1990 to 1991 | FCO, Assistant Desk Officer, European Community Department (External) |
| 1989 | FCO, Assistant Desk Officer, Middle East Department |
| 1989 | Joined FCO |
Published 9 September 2020
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