Sir Peter Westmacott
Sir Peter Westmacott, Independent Non-Executive (INE), appointed on 1 April 2017 and a member of the EY UK Independent Non-Executive Oversight Committee (IOC) since April 2017.
Sir Peter was British Ambassador to the United States from January 2012 until he retired from the UK Diplomatic Service in January 2016. He spent a semester at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as a Resident Fellow.
Sir Peter was British Ambassador to France from 2007-2012 and to Turkey from 2002-2006. His 40-year diplomatic career included four years in Iran before the 1979 revolution and a secondment to the European Commission in Brussels. He was the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Director for the Americas from 1997-2000 and Deputy Under Secretary of State from 2000-2001. From 1990-1993, he was Deputy Private Secretary to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. He is a Distinguished Ambassadorial Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Senior Adviser at Chatham House, chair of the international advisory board of Tikehau Capital, a non-executive director of We.Soda Ltd, and an advisory director of Glasswall Holdings and Campbell Lutyens & Co.
