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Karen Pierce is presently the UK’s everlasting consultant to the United Nations
The federal government has named Karen Pierce as the brand new ambassador to the US.
Ms Pierce – who’s presently the UK’s everlasting consultant to the United Nations – will turn out to be the primary lady within the submit.
She replaces Sir Kim Darroch, who resigned in 2019 after leaked emails revealed he had referred to as President Donald Trump’s administration “clumsy and inept”.
Ms Pierce joined the Overseas and Commonwealth Workplace (FCO) in 1981.
She held posts in nations around the globe, together with Japan, Switzerland and the US, earlier than turning into the British Ambassador in Afghanistan between 2015 and 2016.
She then returned to London because the FCO’s chief operation officer till her posting on the UN.
The UK has not had an envoy within the US since Sir Kim resigned in July after the emails – relationship from 2017 – had been leaked.
In his resignation letter, Sir Kim mentioned the scenario made it “inconceivable for me to hold out my function as I would really like”.
President Trump branded him “a really silly man” and mentioned he would not work with the diplomat.
The row erupted in the midst of the Tory management contest, with the now-Prime Minister Boris Johnson closely criticised for not totally supporting Sir Kim.