Kim Darroch has been the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU since July 2007. He joined the Diplomatic Service over thirty years ago and has since held a wide variety of jobs. These include working on the Channel Tunnel project, serving as Private Secretary to three successive Ministers of State and heading up the Eastern Adriatic Department, during the break-up of Yugoslavia and the Bosnia conflict from 1995-97. After a period in Brussels during the 1998 UK Presidency, he returned to London as Head of News at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before becoming Europe Director in mid-2000, and Europe Director General in 2003.

More recently, he worked as the EU Advisor to former Prime Minister Tony Blair and as Head of the Cabinet Office European Secretariat.

Kim was educated at Abingdon School and Durham University. He is married, with one son and one daughter.

At UKRep, Kim has overall responsibility for the work of the mission and represents the UK on the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper II) in the Council of the European Union. Ambassadors from the 27 EU member states meet in this committee to discuss issues relating to the European Council; general affairs and external relations; economic, finance and monetary affairs; justice and home affairs; and development.