Deputy Head of Mission Dominick Chilcott

Dominick is a career Diplomatic Service officer with 27 years experience. As well as working in a variety of positions in the FCO in London, he has served in British embassies in Ankara and Lisbon and in the UK Permanent Representation to the European Union.
 
From 1996-98, Dominick worked as a private secretary to two successive Foreign Secretaries, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and the late Robin Cook. Dominick worked on Iraq from September 2002 to June 2003 including six months as the head of the Iraq Planning (later Policy) Unit in the first half of 2003. 
 
From 2006-7, Dominick was based in Colombo as High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Maldives. Since January 2008, Dominick has been the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Washington.
 
Dominick was educated at St Joseph's College, Ipswich and Greyfriars Hall, Oxford University where he read philosophy and theology. Between school and university, he spent a year in the Royal Navy, passing out of Britannia Royal Naval College in April 1979.
 
Dominick is married to Jane (neé Bromage). They have four children. His hobbies are enjoying the performance arts, reading and walking.