Full name: Liane Saunders
Place of Birth: Cardiff, UK

Date                       Role

2021 to 2023         FCDO, Staff Counsellor

2017 to 2021          FCDO, Strategy Director and Strategic Programmes Coordinator

2015 to 2017          Cabinet Office, Director General, Capabilities and Engagement, National Security Secretariat and Chilcot Lessons Learned Coordinator

2014 to 2015          Cabinet Office, Acting Deputy National Security Adviser
2012 to 2014          Cabinet Office, Director, Foreign and Defence Policy, and Afghanistan/Pakistan Coordinator

2011 to 2012           FCO, Additional Director, Middle East and North Africa Directorate (MENAD)

2009 to 2010         FCO, Head Counter Proliferation Department

2006 to 2009         FCO, Head Consular Crisis Group

2005 to 2006         FCO, Strategic Challenges Lead, Comprehensive Spending Review Team

2003 to 2004         Northern Iraq: Secondment to US northern region team, Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, latterly Regional Coordinator (Northern Region), Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq

2000 to 2003         Ankara, First Secretary (Political) later Head of Political Section, and British negotiator for the Northern Iraq Kurdish Peace Process

1993 to 2000          Postings to Kuwait and Egypt; Desk Officer for Central America; secondment to the United Nations Observer Team in El Salvador