Sir Peter Ricketts, KCMG (born September 1952),[1] is the Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a senior civil servant in the United Kingdom.
Before Ricketts took over the position on the retirement of Sir Michael Jay in July 2006, he served as the Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels. He was also previously the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
He began his career in the Office in 1974 and served as the Assistant Private Secretary to former Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe. Apart from Brussels, he has been posted to Singapore, Washington D.C. and Paris.
He read English at Pembroke College, Oxford.
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- ^ Foreign Policy in an Era of Globalisation. Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. Thursday 15 2009.