Alison Blake

Alison Mary Blake CMG is a British diplomat who is ambassador to Afghanistan.

Alison Blake

CMG
British Ambassador to Afghanistan
Assumed office
2019
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded bySir Nicholas Kay
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh
In office
2016–2019
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byRobert Gibson
Succeeded byRobert Chatterton Dickson
Personal details
Born
Alison Mary Blake

Career

Blake was educated at Roan School for Girls and Merton College, Oxford, where she gained a MA degree in ancient and modern history in 1980. She worked as an archaeologist for the Museum of London, English Heritage and the Greater London Council 1983–87. She worked for the Ministry of Defence 1989–95 including a period as assistant private secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence. She then joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and was at the UK delegation to NATO in Brussels 1996–99; deputy head of the Eastern Adriatic Department at the FCO 1999–2001; at the embassy in Washington, D.C., 2001–05; on secondment to the Cabinet Office as Head of Foreign and Development Policy 2006–07; head of the Conflict Group at the FCO 2007–11; deputy High Commissioner to Pakistan 2011–14.[1] She became High Commissioner to Bangladesh in January 2016[2] and moved to become Ambassador to Afghanistan in May 2019.[3]

Blake was appointed CMG in the 2018 New Year Honours "for services to British foreign and security policy."[4]

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References
  1. "Blake, Alison Mary". Who's Who 2018. 1 December 2018.
  2. "Change of British High Commissioner to Bangladesh". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 12 October 2015.
  3. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Afghanistan – May 2019". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 15 April 2019.
  4. "No. 62150". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2017. p. N4.
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