Mark sedwill biography

Mark Sedwill, Baron Sedwill of Sherborne GCMG FRGS, is a is cross-bench peer and a member of Parliament’s Joint Committee on national security.

Lord Sedwill is Chair of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and of the Atlantic Future Forum (AFF).

He was Cabinet Secretary & Head of the Civil Service (2018-20), National Security Adviser (2017-20), Permanent Secretary at the Home Office (2013-17), and British Ambassador and NATO Representative in Afghanistan (2009-11). He chaired the 2021 G7 Panel on Global Economic Resilience and is Chairman of the Atlantic Future Forum.

Before that he had a diplomatic and security career serving in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Pakistan.  

Educated at St Andrews and Oxford Universities, Lord Sedwill is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Institute of Directors, an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University and of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.  He is President of the Special Forces Club, a member of the IISS Advisory Council, a Trustee of the RNLI, an Honorary Colonel in the Royal Marines, an Honorary Doctor of Laws of St Andrews University, and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple.

He is an Honorary Doctor of Laws of St Andrews University, and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple. He is Chair of R&Co Geopolitical Advisory and of R&Co Saudi Arabia.  

Lord Sedwill was Cabinet Secretary & Head of the Civil Service (2018-20), National Security Adviser (2017-20), Permanent Secretary at the Home Office (2013-17), and British Ambassador and NATO Representative in Afghanistan (2009-11).

He is a senior adviser for McKinsey & Company, Temasek and Rasmussen Global.

Lord Sedwill is President of the Special Forces Club and of the Special Boat Service Association, a Vice-President of the Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charities (RNRMC), and an Honorary Colonel in the Royal Marines. He is President of the Civil Service Retirement Association and a Trustee of IISS, and of the RNLI.

Mark is an Honorary Doctor of Laws of St Andrews University, and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple.

and a member of Temasek’s EMEA advisory group. He was educated at St Andrews and Oxford Universities.

Lord Sedwill is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Institute of Directors, an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University and of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is also the recipient of several other awards and honours for national and international public service.

Mark Sedwill, Baron Sedwill of Sherborne GCMG FRGS LLD, is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords, Chairman of Geopolitical Advisory and Saudi Arabia for Rothschild & Co and a non-executive director of Lloyd’s of London and BAE Systems.

Before that he had a diplomatic and security career serving in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Pakistan. 

Educated at St Andrews and Oxford Universities, Lord Sedwill is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Institute of Directors, an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University and of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Before that he had a diplomatic and security career serving in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Pakistan. He is President of the Special Forces Club, an Honorary Colonel in the Royal Marines and Vice-President of the Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charities (RNRMC).

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He is President of the Civil Service Retirement Association, and a Trustee of St Andrews University and of the RNLI.

Lord Sedwill chaired the 2021 G7 Panel on Global Economic Resilience.