Matthew Rycroft

Sir Matthew Rycroft
Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office
Assumed office
23 March 2020
Home Secretary
Preceded bySir Philip Rutnam
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for International Development
In office
22 January 2018 – 20 March 2020
Secretary of StatePenny Mordaunt
Rory Stewart
Alok Sharma
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Preceded byMark Lowcock
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
In office
25 April 2015 – 19 January 2018
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Preceded byMark Lyall Grant
Succeeded byKaren Pierce
Her Majesty's Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office
1 March 2005 – 30 July 2008
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Gordon Brown
Preceded byIan Cliff
Succeeded byMichael Tatham
Personal details
Born (1968-06-16) 16 June 1968 (age 56)
Southampton, Hampshire, England
Alma materMerton College, Oxford (BA)

Sir Matthew John Rycroft KCMG CBE (/ˈrkrɒft/; born 16 June 1968) is a British civil servant and diplomat serving as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office since 2020, appointed following the resignation of Sir Philip Rutnam. Rycroft previously served as Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Development (DFID) from 2018 to 2020 and as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 2015 to 2018.[1]

  1. ^ "Appointment of Matthew Rycroft as Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Development - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2017.