Government Officials

HE Sherif Kamel, Egyptian Ambassador to the UK

Ambassador Sherif Kamel graduated from Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1991, with a BA in Civil Engineering.

Ambassador Kamel joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993, and assumed different posts in Egypt’s missions abroad, starting with the Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva (19972001), as well as the Embassy in Washington DC (2005- 2009), then was appointed as the Deputy Chief of Mission at Egypt’s Embassy in New Delhi (2012-2016). He served as Egypt’s Ambassador to The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (2018-2021), and is currently Egypt’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since December 2021.

Gareth Bayley took up his role as Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador to Egypt in August 2021. This appointment marks his return to Egypt, where he had been assigned earlier in his career.

Prior to this assignment, Ambassador Bayley was the Prime Minister ’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Director for South Asia and Afghanistan, from 2017 to May 2021.

Ambassador Bayley has held a number of roles within the Foreign Office since 1995. He worked on the Middle East and North Africa, the United Nations, and various roles on Peacebuilding, Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Transition.

Previous assignments include Chief of Staff to Quartet Representative Tony Blair, the UK Mission to the UN (2006 to 2009), Deputy Head of FCO’s Iraq Department (2005 to 2006) and the British Embassy Baghdad (2004 to 2005).

Ambassador Bayley was the UK Special Representative for Syria from October 2014 to October 2017.