Edward Ferguson took over as His Majesty’s Ambassador to Serbia in July 2023. Earlier than coming to Belgrade, Edward served because the Minister Counsellor Defence on the British Embassy in Washington…
Edward Ferguson took over as His Majesty’s Ambassador to Serbia in July 2023. Earlier than coming to Belgrade, Edward served because the Minister Counsellor Defence on the British Embassy in Washington DC in September 2018. Along with the Defence Attaché, he led the British Defence Employees (United States), a community of 1,000 individuals unfold throughout 28 States. Because the UK’s senior coverage adviser on defence relations with america, he was liable for UK-US collaboration on strategic planning, nuclear coverage and programmes, commerce and acquisition, and science and know-how. He was the US Community’s lead on HMG’s Built-in Overview and AUKUS, and the senior champion for the Race, Ethnic and Cultural Heritage Group.
Beforehand, he served as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2014 to 2018, the place he created and led a brand new worldwide technique, co-launched by the British and German Overseas Ministers, that re-energised Euro-Atlantic integration after years of stagnation whereas stimulating financial development and decreasing excessive ranges of youth unemployment.
A former Exhibitioner and Choral Scholar of Trinity Faculty, Oxford, the place he was additionally Treasurer of the Oxford Union, Edward graduated with First Class Honours in Classics in 2001. Becoming a member of the Graduate Quick Stream of the Ministry of Defence, he began out within the Naval Employees earlier than becoming a member of the Iraq Secretariat through the build-up to and subsequent execution of Operation TELIC. In 2003, he was concerned in monetary and requirement scrutiny of the Division’s future helicopter procurement programme.
From 2004 to 2006, he managed a nationwide award-winning £300-million programme to consolidate the MOD property in Higher London and to redevelop RAF Northolt. In 2006, he volunteered for an operational tour, serving as Political Advisor to a British Battlegroup in Maysaan Province, Iraq (whereas his brother was a troop chief with the British Military in Basra). On his return, he took on accountability for the strategic administration of the UK’s bilateral defence relations with america, Canada and Western Europe.
From 2007 to 2009, he labored as Personal Secretary to a few Defence Secretaries, performing as their closest adviser on points regarding operations in Iraq, the £6-billion defence gear programme, science & know-how, counter-terrorism and counter-piracy.
In 2009, he was appointed the Head of Afghanistan and Pakistan Coverage, liable for recommendation to the Nationwide Safety Council on the coverage, monetary, authorized, parliamentary and presentational facets of the UK army contribution to operations in Afghanistan, and on the long-term defence position and pursuits in Pakistan.
From 2011 to 2014, he was Head of Defence Technique and Priorities, main two groups, one liable for main the MOD’s contribution to creating the 2015 Nationwide Safety Technique and the Strategic Defence and Safety Overview, and the opposite for prioritising the MOD’s worldwide defence engagement actions. In 2013, he graduated from the London Faculty of Economics and Political Science with an MSc with Distinction in Technique and Diplomacy. He has been a member of the RCDS Strategic Advisory Panel, a member of the US Air Power Grand Technique Advisory Board, and is a graduate of the PINNACLE Command and Employees course.
