Simon McDonald
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Sir Simon Gerard McDonald (born 9 March 1961) is a British diplomat who is Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service.
Early life and education
McDonald was born in Salford, Lancashire, England, on March 9, 1961. He was educated at De La Salle College, Salford's sole grant grammar academy. He then specialized in history at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree; as per tradition, his BA was converted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree.
Career
McDonald joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1982 and spent in Jeddah, Riyadh, Bonn, and Washington, D.C., as well as London. He served as Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary from 2001-2003; Ambassador to Israel 2004-06; and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister and Director of the Overseas and Defense Secretariat at the Cabinet Office 2006–10.
McDonald assumed Permanent Under-Secretary in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service in September 2015, replacing Sir Simon Fraser. McDonald was paid between £180,000 and £184,999 by the Foreign Office as of 2015, making him one of the highest paid employees in the British public sector at that time.
McDonald argued that opting out of an EU initiative to bulk-buy ventilators and protective equipment for NHS employees was a political decision to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in April 2020. Ministers may have postponed Brexit in the hopes of responding to the public health crisis rather than responding to the public health crisis. Matt Hancock made a remark after being informed that there was no political decision not to participate in Downing Street's daily press briefing to state that there was no political decision not to participate as far as he knew. McDonald subsequently wrote to the committee chairperson, Tom Tugendhat, explaining that he had "inadvertently and incorrectly" mischaracterized the committee "due to a miscommunication."
McDonald would retire early in autumn 2020, according to a newspaper in June 2020. The change resulted from the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with the Department of International Cooperation, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing that he needed a new leader to head the combined department.
In the 2020 Political Honours, McDonald was nominated for a life peerage. Baron McDonald of Salford, of Pendleton, was born on January 27, 2021. He made his first address on March 2nd, 2021. He appears as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.
McDonald was proclaimed Master-elect of Christ's College, Cambridge, on September 23rd, 2021, in succession to Jane Stapleton. His term of office will begin on September 1st 2022.
McDonald wrote in July 2022 to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards on recent official allegations against Pincher following his resignation as a result of sexual harassment. According to a Guardian editorial, the letter was a "extraordinary, devastating intervention" that prompted Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Health Secretary Sajid Javid, and many others to resign from Boris Johnson's government from May 5th 2022.