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Neil Wigan OBE is His Majesty’s High Commissioner to the Republic of Kenya.
Previously, Neil was Ambassador to the State of Israel from June 2019 to June 2023. He also served as Director for Africa at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) from November 2015 to September 2018, British Ambassador to Somalia from June 2013 to July 2015, and British Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo from March 2010 to March 2013.
Neil has also worked in the Cabinet Office, working for the Prime Minister’s Foreign Policy Adviser, and on Middle Eastern and EU economic issues within the FCO.
He has a BA from Oxford University, an MSc in Economics from the University of London and did postgraduate studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Before joining the FCO, he worked at the Bank of England and as an economist in the private sector.
