Simon Manley

{{Short description|British diplomat}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2013}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = File:Session 90- Renewable Energy Services and Sustainable Trade Simon Manley.jpg | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}} | name = Simon Manley | honorific_prefix = His Excellency Sir | office1 = Her Majesty's Ambassador to Spain | monarch1 = Elizabeth II | term_start1 = October 2013 | term_end1 = August 2019 | predecessor1 = Giles Paxman | successor1 = Hugh Elliott | prime_minister1 = David Cameron Theresa May Boris Johnson | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|9|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = United Kingdom | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | children = 3 | alma_mater = Magdalen College, Oxford Yale University | birth_name = Simon John Manley | office = Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN in Geneva | prime_minister = Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer | monarch = Elizabeth II Charles III | term_start = April 2021 | term_end = July 2025 | succeeded = Kumar Iyer | predecessor = Julian Braithwaite }} '''Sir Simon John Manley''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}} (born 18 September 1967) is a British diplomat, recently the UK Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN in Geneva and previously Ambassador to Spain from October 2013 to August 2019.<ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/new-british-ambassador-arrives-in-madrid New British Ambassador arrives in Madrid], British Embassy Madrid, 28 October 2013</ref>

==Early life == Manley was educated at Montpelier Primary School, Latymer Upper School, Magdalen College Oxford and Yale University.<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U245836 MANLEY, Simon John], ''Who's Who 2013'', A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012</ref>

==Career== Manley joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1990. Before his posting to Madrid, he served as Director Europe at the FCO (2011–2013), responsible for policy toward the EU. He has been posted to the UK's Mission to the United Nations in New York City (1993–1998), where he worked on Yugoslavia and UN reform, and has twice been seconded to the European Union: to the European Commission (2003) and to the Council of the EU (1998–2002).

In March 2020 Manley was appointed Director-General for COVID-19 at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, leading and coordinating HMG's coronavirus rollout.<ref>{{cite web |title=Simon Manley CMG |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/simon-manley--2 |website=Gov.uk |accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref>

In June 2023 the World Trade Organisation's Trade and Gender Informal Working Group published its 2023-2024 plan. Manley and Clara Manuela da Luz Delgado Jesus were new, joining El Salvador's Ana Patricia Benedetti Zelaya, as co-chairs of the Working Group. They replaced Athaliah Lesiba Molokomme and Einar Gunnarsson.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trade and Gender Informal Working Group co-chairs launch work plan for 2023-24 |url=https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news23_e/iwgtg_20jun23_e.htm |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=wto.org |language=en}}</ref>

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