Alex Ellis

2021 to present British High Commissioner to India

2020 to 2021 Cabinet Office, Deputy National Security Adviser

2017 to 2019 Department for Exiting the European Union, Director General

2013 to 2017 Brasilia, Her Majesty’s Ambassador

2011 to 2013 FCO, Director of Strategy

2007 to 2010 Lisbon, Her Majesty’s Ambassador

2005 to 2007 Adviser to the President of the European Commission

1990 to 2005 Postings to Lisbon, Madrid and to EU. British Government negotiation team on euro, EU Budget framework, Treaty of the EU and EU Enlargement; worked on South Africa’s transition to multi party democracy.