Nick Heath leads the department in the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office which looks at cross cutting issues of European policy. Before that, he was Deputy Head of Mission at the Consulate General in Hong Kong in 2019-2020, and Director Trade and Investment in Hong Kong 2020-2022. Earlier in his career Mr Heath was Deputy Ambassador to the Netherlands, worked on European policy in London in the run up to the 2016 Referendum and has also been posted in Riyadh and Cairo.