Director General: Simon Fraser

We cover the following areas:

• Africa
• Asia Pacific
• Europe
• Global and economic issues

Africa

Director: Adam Wood

Equatorial

West Africa: Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Togo and Benin.

Nigeria and Central Africa: Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, Chad and Central Africa Republic.

East Africa and The Horn: Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti

Developing and implementing the UK’s relations with these countries, in line with the FCO’s Departmental Strategic Objectives and in our partners across government. Providing advice on political developments and other issues in these countries to Ministers and others.    

Enquiries  
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7008 2897
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7008 2896

Southern

Zimbabwe

Great Lakes: Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi

Southern Africa: Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Swaziland, Losiotho, Mauritius, Malawi, Botswana, Comoros, Seychelles, Sao Tome and Principe

Relations with the Southern African Development Community (SADC).  Promoting better governance and human rights in the region (especially Zimbabwe) and reducing the conflict in the Great Lakes area. Providing advice and briefing to Ministers, Parliament and members of the public, as well as  support to our network of overseas posts.

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 2552

Pan Africa policy (PAPU)

PAPU works on issues affecting Africa as a whole, in particular conflict prevention and governance.

With the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD), we manage the Africa Conflict Prevention Programme, which provides about £60 million a year for projects in Africa ranging from the training of peacekeepers, to support for mediation and elections.

The African Union (AU) is a key partner. PAPU also works on the strategic relationship between Africa and the European Union and the continent's fast-growing relations with countries such as China.

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)207 008 4556

Sudan

Our main focus is to resolve the conflicts in Sudan. We provide accurate and timely advice on political developments there to Ministers and others. We are a joint FCO/DFID Unit and work closely with other government departments across Whitehall.

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)207 008 3947

Asia Pacific

Director: Scott Wightman

Far Eastern

Handling relations with China, Hong Kong and Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, and North (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and South (Republic of Korea) Korea.

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 2867

South East Asia and Pacific

Handling relations with ASEAN, the Association of East Asian Nations, countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. We pursue UK’s interests and have a network of British embassies and high commissions throughout the region. Handling the EU’s relations with these countries, as well as ASEAN, the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) and other regional organisations.

Working closely with our high commissions and embassies and with the diplomatic missions of these countries in London. Providing advice and briefing to Ministers, Cabinet Office, No 10 and others.

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 2449

Europe Directorate

Director EU: Matthew Rycroft
Director European Political Affairs: Anthony Smith

European Council, Global Europe and Strategy Group

We cover the following areas:

• EU Budget Review 
• EU Economic Reform
• Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 
• Structural and Cohesion Funds 
• EU Fisheries 
• European Council co-ordination 
• Global Europe agenda 
• EU influencing strategy 
• Justice and Home Affairs

Bilateral relations with Romania, Bulgaria, Ireland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia and Hungary.  

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 3388

EU Institutions, Lisbon Treaty, Communications and Iberia Group

We cover the following areas:

• HMG engagement with the EU institutions 
• FCO policy co-ordination with the devolved administrations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland 
• EU policy: health, pandemic flu, food safety and non-CAP related agriculture 
• Lisbon Treaty strategy, implementation and communications 
• Follow up on the EU (Amendment) Act 
• Parliamentary lead for Europe Directorate 
• EU communications and stakeholder management 
• General public correspondence on EU issues
• EU Publications: Guide to the EU 
• Global Europe public diplomacy events 
• Gibraltar relations with EU and Spain

Bilateral relations with Spain, Gibraltar, Portugal, Andorra, Slovakia and Poland.

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 2972

Enlargement, South-east and Wider Europe Group

We cover the following areas:

• Cyprus settlement 
• Turkey and EU accession 
• UK policy on EU Enlargement 
• Moving the Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus closer to the EU and developing an effective neighbourhood policy 
• Effective management and maximum impact of Europe Directorate programme funds

Bilateral relations with Turkey, Ukraine, Cyprus, Greece, Belarus, Moldova, Macedonia, Croatia and Albania

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 1874

Western Balkans Group

We cover the following areas:  

• Albania: promoting wide political party engagement in essential electoral code reforms for elections in 2009 
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: encouraging its Euro-Atlantic aspirations, whilst reducing tensions caused by the conflict of the 1990s 
• Kosovo: ensuring the smooth transition between UNMIK and EULEX 
• Macedonia: maintaining good neighbourly relations with Greece, including finding a mutually acceptable solution on the name issue
• Montenegro: driving forward Montenegro's reform, with a view to joining Euro-Atlantic structures 
• Serbia: maintaining Serbia's EU perspective and conditionality for co-operation with the ICTY

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 3087

Europe Global Group

We cover the following issues:

• Co-ordination of EU external relations 
• General Affairs and External Relations Council 
• Gymnich (Informal meetings of EU Foreign Ministers) 
• Political and Security Committee 
• G8 Foreign Policy 
• French Presidency of the EU 
• EU parliamentary scrutiny 
• EU training co-ordination
• Common foreign and security policy institutional issues; European security and defence policy missions 
• EU external spending

Bilateral relations with France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Malta, Liechtenstein and Monaco.

Hosting the Nordic and Baltic Networks. The former covers bilateral relations with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, while the latter takes in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 2288 (Global Group)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 6438 (Nordic Network)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 2422 (Baltic Network)

Global and economic issues

Director: Deborah Bronnert/Vicky Bowman (Job-Share)

Climate Change and Energy Group

Implementing the FCO Strategic Objective: A low carbon, high growth global economy.

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 5119

Global Economy Group

Implementing the FCO Strategic Objective: "A low carbon, high growth global economy"; and contributing towards the objective of "Developing effective international institutions, above all the EU and UN".  

We are organised as follows:

• Development team: provides political support for Department for International Development (DFID)'s work on poverty    
• Emerging markets team: carries out economic analysis, briefing and policy advice on major emerging markets and key global economic trends. 
• Prosperity team: puts the Prosperity Campaign message across to key decision-makers in countries such as China, India, and the US.  
• Globalisation and international architecture team: works closely with other government departments and FCO colleagues in the UK and overseas on policy briefing, advice and economic analysis 
• G8 team: responsible for co-ordinating UK policy for the G8 Summit across Whitehall

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 2732

Delivery Unit

We are organised as follows:

• GEID programme team: manages the Low Carbon High Growth Strategic Programme Fund which enables 22 priority embassies and high commissions to achieve their policy objectives 
• Business, planning and communications team: coordinates the business planning, stakeholder engagement and communications work for this objective 
• Business engagement team: manages the FCO's relations with business and the trades unions at a strategic level. It also supports SISBO (Security Information Service for Business Overseas)

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 3499

International Trade Team

FCO lead on all aspects of trade policy in this area, working closely with colleagues around Whitehall on developing and implementing UK.

Primarily, this means influencing within the EU but we also work through embassies and high commissions in key countries around the world to promote an open approach to trade and combat protectionism.

Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)20 7008 2622