NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST—UNITED KINGDOM

Professor Terence Vincent CALLAGHAN, Professor of Arctic Ecology CENTRAL CHANCERY OF and Director, University of Sheffield. For services to advancing THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD knowledge and international collaboration in Arctic science.

Ms Diana June NELSON, O.B.E., Head of Health and Welfare St. James’s Palace, London SW1 International, Human Resources Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to the welfare of staff and families 30 December 2017 working for the British Government overseas.

THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the Quentin James Kitson PHILLIPS, Director, Foreign and following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Distinguished Commonwealth Office. For services to British foreign policy. Order of Saint Michael and Saint George: Dr. William George STIRLING, lately Director General, European Synchrontron Radiation Facility and lately Director Institut Laue- Langevin, Grenoble, France. For services to British science and ORDER OF SAINT MICHAEL international science collaboration. AND SAINT GEORGE CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD

St. James’s Palace, London SW1 C.M.G. 30 December 2017 To be an Ordinary Member of the Third Class, or Companion, of the said Most Distinguished Order: THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to make the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Royal Victorian Order: Ms Helen Patricia SHARMAN, O.B.E. For services to Science and Technology Educational Outreach. DIPLOMATIC SERVICE AND OVERSEAS LIST THE ROYAL G.C.M.G.

To be an Ordinary Member of the First Class, or Knight Grand VICTORIAN ORDER Cross, of the said Most Distinguished Order:

Sir Mark Justin Lyall GRANT, K.C.M.G., former National Security Adviser. For services to UK foreign and national security policy. D.C.V.O.

K.C.M.G. To be Dames Commander:

To be Ordinary Members of the Second Class, or Knights Mary, Lady CAREW POLE, C.V.O., Lady in Waiting to The Princess Commander, of the said Most Distinguished Order: Royal.

The Honourable Joseph John BOSSANO, Member of Parliament and Kathrin Elizabeth, Mrs. THOMAS, C.V.O., J.P., Lord-Lieutenant of Minister, former Chief Minister. For services to Gibraltar. Mid- Glamorgan.

Dominick John CHILCOTT, C.M.G., former H.M. Ambassador, Dublin, K.C.V.O. Ireland. For services to British foreign policy. To be Knights Commander: Paul John MAHONEY, UK Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. For services to international justice. Denis Fitzgerald DESMOND, C.B.E., Lord-Lieutenant of County Londonderry. Mark SEDWILL, C.M.G., National Security Adviser and former Permanent Secretary at the Home Office. For services to UK national Marcus James O’LONE, C.V.O., Land Agent, Sandringham Estate. security. C.V.O. C.M.G. To be Commanders: To be Ordinary Members of the Third Class, or Companions, of the said Most Distinguished Order: Donald Angus CAMERON OF LOCHIEL, Lord-Lieutenant of Inverness-shire. Duncan Brierton ALLAN, M.B.E., Research Analyst, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Joan, Mrs. CHRISTIE, O.B.E., Lord-Lieutenant of County Antrim. For services to supporting and informing British government policy towards Russia. Guy Wyndham Nial Hamilton CLARK, Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire. Francis Raymond BAKER, O.B.E., lately H.M. Ambassador, Baghdad, Iraq. For services to British foreign policy and UK/Iraq relations. Lieutenant General Arundell David LEAKEY, C.M.G., C.B.E., formerly Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. Ms Alison Mary BLAKE, High Commissioner, Dhaka, Bangladesh. For services to British foreign and security policy. Miss Charlotte Elizabeth MANLEY, L.V.O., O.B.E., Chapter Clerk, College of St George.

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