Anna Clunes
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Anna Clunes CMG OBE has, since August 2025, been an 'Advisor' in the Cabinet Office, as she rather shyly puts it on her LinkedIn page.[1] In fact, according to official data, on the Cabinet Office she has the rank of SCS3 and a salary of between £140,000 - £144,999 in the National Security Secretariat, suggesting she may be a Deputy National Security Adviser. This is confirmed by a public announcement by the US Department of State on the occasion of Clunes meeting Senior Bureau for European and Eurasian Affairs Official Brendan P Hanrahan at the Department of State on 12 August.[2] She is, in other words, an intelligence officer. It is not clear whether she has always been one, via a covert career in MI6, or not.
Curriculum Vitae
- 2020- August 2025 His Majesty’s Ambassador to Poland in September 2020.
- 2017 - 2020 Department for Exiting the European Union, Director, then Acting Director General
- 2015 - 2017 FCO, Director, Economic Diplomacy
- 2012 - 2014 FCO, Director, Protocol
- 2010 - 2012 FCO, Head, Communications and Engagement Department and co-Head of Communications Directorate
- 2007 - 2009 Cabinet Office, Deputy Director, European and Global Issues Secretariat
- 2006 - 2007 No.10, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Africa and Development
- 2006 FCO, Deputy Head, Africa Department (Equatorial)
- 2003 - 2005 Brussels, Counsellor, External Relations, UK Permanent Representation to the EU
- 2000 - 2003 New York, First Secretary, Counter-Terrorism, UK Mission to the United Nations
- 1996 - 2000 Warsaw, Department for International Development, Second Secretary, Development Assistance and Economic[3]
Awards
- Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Diplomatic service and overseas list Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood St. James’s Palace, London SW1, 10 October 2020. THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George: C.M.G. To be Ordinary Members of the Third Class, or Companions, of the said Most Distinguished Order: Anna CLUNES O.B.E. Director and Acting Director General, EU Exit, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British foreign policy.[4]