Under the Basic Law,the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is exclusively in charge of its internal affairs,whilst the central government of China is responsible for its foreign affairs and defence. As a separate customs territory,Hong Kong maintains and develops relations with foreign states and regions,and plays an active role in such international organisations as World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in its own right under the name of Hong Kong,China. Hong Kong participates in 16 projects of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Sir Laurence Stanley Charles Bristow is a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to Afghanistan between June and November 2021,notably during the fall of Kabul. He served as British Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2004 to 2007 and British Ambassador to Russia from 2016 to 2020. He is now President of Hughes Hall,Cambridge.
The British Consulate General Hong Kong (BCGHK),located at 1 Supreme Court Road,Admiralty,Hong Kong Island,is one of the largest British consulates general in the world and is bigger than many British embassies and high commissions. It is responsible for maintaining British ties with Hong Kong and Macau.
Sir Robert John Sawers FRUSI is a British intelligence officer,diplomat and civil servant. He was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6),a position he held from November 2009 until November 2014. He was previously the British Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 2007 to November 2009.
Sir William Charters Patey,KCMG is a British retired diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012,and previously served as Ambassador to Sudan,to Iraq and to Saudi Arabia.
Sir David Alexander Warren,KCMG is a British diplomat,serving as HM Ambassador to Japan in the period 2008–2012. He retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in January 2013,and served as chairman of The Japan Society in London from 2013 to 2019.
Sir Julian Beresford King is a British diplomat and civil servant who served as the final British European Commissioner from 2016 to 2019 prior to Brexit,having previously served as the British ambassador to Ireland (2009–2011) and France (2016).
Sir Alexander Wykeham Ellis is a British civil servant,currently Ambassador designate to Spain,scheduled to take up his post in Summer 2024. He has previously been High Commissioner to India,Ambassador to Brazil and before that Portugal,and Deputy National Security Adviser for the Integrated Review on diplomacy,development and defence. Ellis was previously the Director General of the Department for Exiting the EU. He had previously been Britain's ambassador to Brazil from July 2013 to January 2017.
Crawford Murray MacLehose,Baron MacLehose of Beoch,,was a British politician,diplomat and colonial official who served as the 25th Governor of Hong Kong,from 1971 to 1982. He was the longest-serving governor of the colony,with four successive terms in office. He previously worked for the British Council in China and was the British Ambassador to South Vietnam and Denmark.
Sir Dominick John Chilcott is a British diplomat who was Ambassador to Turkey from 2018 to 2022.
Sir Richard Mark Evans was a British diplomat who was the ambassador to the People's Republic of China from January 1984 to May 1988,during which he and Zhou Nan,the Chinese representative,initialled the Sino-British Joint Declaration on 26 September 1984.
Sir Timothy Earle Barrow is a British diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union from 2017 to 2020 and as the British Ambassador to the European Union from 2020 to 2021. He currently serves as National Security Adviser.
Sir Tom Richard Vaughan Phillips,is a diplomat who served as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies from 2014 to 2018.
Christine Isobel "Kirsty" Hayes is a British diplomat and civil servant. She is the current British Ambassador to Argentina. She was British Ambassador to Portugal from 2014 to 2018.
Sir Thomas Drew is a British diplomat who was the Director General,Defence and Intelligence,at the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office and has previously been British High Commissioner to Pakistan.
Sir Alan Stanley Collins,KCVO,CMG,is a retired British diplomat and former Consul General in New York City (2007–11),High Commissioner to Singapore (2003–07) and Ambassador to the Philippines (1998–2002).
Alison Mary Blake,is a British diplomat who is currently serving as Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. She previously served as High Commissioner to Bangladesh and Ambassador to Afghanistan.
