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Nic Hailey joined International Alert as Executive Director in September 2021. Prior to this role, he spent 24 years in the UK Diplomatic Service, most recently as a Director-General at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (responsible for the merger of the FCO and DFID); High Commissioner (i.e. UK Ambassador) to Kenya 2015-19; Africa Director 2013-15; and deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan 2012-13. He previously served in UK embassies in Washington DC, Berlin, and Paris as well as in a range of roles in London. Nic was educated at a Steiner Waldorf School, Cambridge University, and at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (Paris). He is British and French, married, with two teenage children.
Nic Hailey joined International Alert as Executive Director in September 2021.
Prior to this role, he spent 24 years in the UK Diplomatic Service, most recently as a Director-General at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (responsible for the merger of the FCO and DFID); High Commissioner (i.e. UK Ambassador) to Kenya 2015-19; Africa Director 2013-15; and deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan 2012-13. He previously served in UK embassies in Washington DC, Berlin, and Paris as well as in a range of roles in London.
Nic was educated at a Steiner Waldorf School, Cambridge University, and at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (Paris). He is British and French, married, with two teenage children.