Iain took up the position of His Majesty’s Ambassador to The Socialist Republic of Vietnam in August 2022.

Dominic Jermey was appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor-Leste in 2023.

Dominic’s previous diplomatic postings include serving as HM Ambassador to Afghanistan (2016 to 2017) and to the United Arab Emirates (2010 to 2014). Dominic was Managing Director and Chief Executive of the UK’s inward investment and export support agency, UK Trade and Investment from 2007 to 2010 and 2014 to 2015. In 1999 to 2000, Dominic was British Representative to the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor, reporting to the UK Ambassador in Jakarta. Dominic has also served in Pakistan, Spain, Macedonia and headed the UK’s crisis team in Thailand following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Dominic was Director General of the conservation science NGO, the Zoological Society of London, from 2017 to 2022. Prior to joining the diplomatic service, Dominic was a corporate financier at investment bank, Schroders. Dominic has been a trustee of UK international development NGO CAFOD since 2008.

Nikesh (Nik) Mehta is the British High Commissioner to Singapore.

Prior to this, Nik served from 2022 to 2024 as the Director for Policy and Requirements in the UK’s National Security Community.

Nik joined the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in 2002, and has worked in Iraq, Uganda, Malaysia and South Korea. The posting to Uganda was particularly poignant for Nik because his mother, a Ugandan-Asian, was expelled from the country by Idi Amin’s forces in the early 1970s. He reported on the 20-year conflict between the Ugandan Government and the Lord’s Resistance Army, and the ensuing humanitarian crisis. Nik was the Political Counsellor in Malaysia and was responsible for the UK’s response to the two Malaysia Airlines disasters in 2014 and 2015.

Nik’s most recent role overseas was as the Deputy Ambassador at the British Embassy in South Korea from 2018 to 2022. Alongside the Ambassador, Nik was responsible for leading the embassy through the challenges of Covid and for deepening the bilateral partnership with the Korean government. During his time in South Korea, Nik brokered an agreement with the K-pop band Blackpink to work with the British government on climate action.

In the UK, Nik’s roles have primarily focused on conflict and security issues. From 2015 to 2018, Nik was a Deputy Director at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) working on international cyber-security.

Throughout his career, Nik has been a strong supporter of diversity and inclusion. He believes passionately that the Diplomatic and Intelligence Services should reflect fully the talent across UK society and that diversity is one of the UK’s great strengths. Nik has led a number of campaigns to improve the recruitment and development of staff from minority backgrounds. He is the National Security Community’s co-Champion for Race.

Nik was awarded an OBE in HM The Queen’s 2014 Birthday Honours for his contribution to British foreign policy and diversity.

Suwei is Lead Partner of China & Southeast Asia Business Group – Strategic International Markets at PwC UK. Suwei is an audit and deals partner by background and has been dealing with all aspects of China and ASEAN inbound and outbound businesses across UK and Europe for the past 16 years.
Her expertise covers delivering market access, M&A transactions, capital markets and financing projects, and advisory engagements for private and public sector clients both in the UK, in China and Southeast Asia. She has experience of advising companies from a range of sectors including renewable energy, financial services, retail and consumer and technology.
Suwei was born and brought up in China. She joined PwC London in 1998, qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2001 and obtained an MBA in International Business with Distinction from Bristol University. She is the first mainland Chinese who was admitted into partnership in a Big 4 firm in the UK and is the first female Ambassador of the “Women in Finance” China network of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). She currently sits in the Advisory Board of the Confucius Institute for Business at the London School of Economics.

Kenneth is Regional Director, Europe at the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). In his role, he partners companies in the UK and Europe to grow their business in Asia. He has a deep interest in the tech, manufacturing and sustainability industries.

Prior to his regional role, Kenneth spent 5 years in Singapore and was responsible for growing the
logistics, consulting and engineering services sectors there.