Kate Airey

Kate Airey OBE is a British diplomat serving as the British High Commissioner to Uganda since November 2020.

Kate Airey
OBE
British High Commissioner to Uganda
Assumed office
December 2020
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Liz Truss
Preceded byPeter West
British High Commissioner to Namibia
In office
January 2018 – November 2020
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Boris Johnson
Preceded byJoanne Lomas
Succeeded byCharles Moore
Personal details
BornBirmingham
SpouseDuncan Low
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BSc)

Early life

She was born and raised in Birmingham, UK and graduated from University of Oxford in 1999 with a BSc in Geography.[1]

Career

She began her career working at Oxfam in September 1999 and moved to Shell International a year later, working as a Senior Consultant in Africa and Europe.

Airey joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2005, and had roles in London including Africa Energy Adviser, Lead on Strategy, and Lead on Prosperity.

She held postings overseas in Abuja, Nigeria between 2007 and 2010 and was based in Freetown, Sierra Leone between 2014 and 2015, leading the response to the Ebola crisis both in Freetown as Deputy Head of the UK response and in London as Head of the FCDO Ebola Task Force, coordinating the UK end of the Foreign Policy response. For her work, she received an OBE in the Queen's New Years Honours in 2016.[2][3]

She moved onto Namibia as the Head of the Nigeria Whitehall Unit, before becoming British High Commissioner to Namibia in Windhoek in November 2017, and started in January 2018.[4]

She was appointed British High Commissioner to Uganda at the end of 2019, and started in November 2020.[5]

References
  1. "Kate Airey LinkedIn".
  2. "NEW YEAR HONOURS 2016 DIPLOMATIC SERVICE AND OVERSEAS LIST" (PDF) (Press release). UK Government.
  3. "Ebola fight in Sierra Leone: Ex-UK diplomat gets 'Order of British Empire'". 17 June 2017.
  4. "People - Kate Airey". HM Government. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  5. "Kate Airey".
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