Speaker

Before arriving in Erbil, Andrew was Deputy Head of His Majesty’s Government’s Iran Unit (2022 to 2024). He has previously been posted to Iraq as First Secretary Political-Military, and then Acting Political Counsellor, in Baghdad (2019 to 2021). In London, Andrew was a senior lawyer covering Europe and Human Rights from 2015 when he joined FCDO. Prior to this, Andrew held various roles covering a range of energy and climate issues in the Department of Energy and Climate Change, from 2008.