David Quarrey

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His Excellency Sir
David Quarrey
KCMG
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Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to NATO
In office
April 2022 – April 2025
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Keir Starmer
Preceded byDame Sarah MacIntosh
Succeeded byAngus Lapsley
Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on International Affairs
In office
July 2019 – April 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byChristian Turner
Succeeded byDame Sarah MacIntosh (Deputy National Security Adviser and Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs)
United Kingdom National Security Adviser
Acting
17 September 2020 – 23 March 2021
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded bySir Mark Sedwill
Succeeded bySir Stephen Lovegrove
British Ambassador to Israel
In office
2015–2019
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Preceded byMatthew Gould
Succeeded byNeil Wigan
Personal details
NationalityBritish
SpouseAldo Oliver Henriquez

Sir David Quarrey KCMG[1] (born 1966) is a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to NATO from 2022 to 2025. He was formerly acting National Security Adviser, having taken over the role while David Frost continued as the United Kingdom's Chief Negotiator to the European Union during the Brexit negotiations.[2][3] He was the UK's Ambassador to Israel from 2015 to 2019.[4]

Career

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Quarrey, who joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1994,[5][6] previously directed its Near East and North Africa Department. He has also served as a British diplomat in Harare, in Delhi and at the United Nations in New York. When Tony Blair was British prime minister, he was his private secretary for two years.[7]

Quarrey's term as Ambassador to Israel ended in June 2019. He was replaced by Neil Wigan.[8]

Quarrey was previously Prime Minister Boris Johnson's International Affairs Adviser and Deputy National Security Adviser.[9] In April 2022 he was appointed as the British Ambassador to NATO. [10][11]

Personal life

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Quarrey was Britain's first openly homosexual Ambassador to Israel.[7] His husband is Aldo Oliver Henriquez.[12]

In 2021, he tested positive for the Indian variant of COVID-19 after returning from a government business trip to India.[9]

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  8. ^ Ambassador to Israel: Neil Wigan OBE. GOV.UK Retrieved 16 October 2019.
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