PERSON: Kim Darroch

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Nigel Kim Darroch, Baron Darroch of Kew, KCMG (born 30 April 1954) is a former British diplomat. He served as the British Ambassador to the United States between January 2016 and December 2019, and previously as National Security Adviser and U.K. Permanent Representative to the European Union.

On 10 July 2019, following the leak of diplomatic cables in which he had been critical of the Trump presidential administration, he resigned from his position as ambassador in Washington. Darroch concluded his post in December 2019 upon retirement from HM Diplomatic Service after a career spanning 40 years of public service.

Nigel Kim Darroch was born in the village of South Stanley in County Durham, England, on 30 April 1954, to Alastair Macphee Darroch and Enid Darroch. He was educated at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire and at Durham University (Hatfield College), from where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Zoology in 1975. Darroch was an avid fives player in his youth, representing his school and later Durham University.

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