Antonia Romeo

Dame Antonia Romeo
DCB
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 January 2021
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Keir Starmer
ChancellorRobert Buckland
Dominic Raab
Brandon Lewis
Alex Chalk
Shabana Mahmood
Preceded bySir Richard Heaton
Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Trade
In office
March 2017 – 18 February 2021
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Boris Johnson
Secretary of StateLiam Fox
Liz Truss
Preceded byMartin Donnelly
Succeeded byJames Bowler
Foreign Office Director-General for Economic and Domestic Affairs
(United States)
In office
February 2015 – October 2015
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byMelanie Dawes
Succeeded byJonathan Slater
Her Majesty's Consul-General in New York
In office
July 2016 – 2017
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Preceded byDanny Lopez
Succeeded byAntony Phillipson
Personal details
Born
Antonia Rebecca Caroline Angharad Catherine Rice-Evans

(1974-10-20) 20 October 1974 (age 50)
Spouse
John Romeo
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(m. 1999)​
Children3
EducationBrasenose College, Oxford (MA)[Oxon]
Columbia University (MPA)
London School of Economics (MSc)

Dame Antonia Rebecca Caroline Angharad Catherine Romeo DCB (née Rice-Evans; born 20 October 1974) is a British civil servant.[1][2] She is currently serving as the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.[3] She was the permanent secretary at the Department for International Trade and before that, the British consul-general in New York for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and concurrently director-general for economic and commercial affairs in the USA.

  1. ^ "ROMEO, Antonia". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Order of the Bath". The London Gazette. HM Government. 15 June 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Warrants Under the Royal Sign Manual". The London Gazette. HM Government. 22 January 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021. The Queen has been pleased by Royal Warrant under Her Royal Sign Manual dated 18th January 2021 to appoint Antonia Romeo to the Office of Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.