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New Year Honours 2023 Overseas and International List: Order of the Bath and Order of the British Empire
Updated 30 December 2022
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| Level | Award | Name | Job title | Short citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Order of the Bath (Companion) | CB | Gaven Nicholas SMITH | Director General, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | James Michael ALEXANDROFF | Founder and Trustee, The Perivoli Foundation. | For services to Education in Africa. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Athenee HARVEY-BASDEN | Permanent Secretary, Finance, Turks and Caicos Islands. | For services to the Economy in the Turks and Caicos Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Simon BERRY | Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, ColaLife and Startup Catalyst, ORSZCA. | For services to global Child Health. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | James BOOTH | former Country Director Afghanistan, British Council. | For services to UK/Afghanistan cultural relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Paolo Cesare CONIGLIO | Secretary General, Church of England Association in Italy. | For services to the Church of England in Italy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Sheelagh Ann COOPER | Chair, Habitat for Humanity, Bermuda. | For services to the community in Bermuda. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Professor Nigel CUNLIFFE | Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool and Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. | For services to Infectious Disease and Vaccine research. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Kate DAVENPORT | Political Counsellor, British Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Sarah DOCHERTY | lately Head of Chancery, British Embassy Moscow, Russia. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Daniel DRAKE | Deputy Director, Sanctions Taskforce, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Fergus DRAKE | Chief Executive Officer, Crown Agents. | For services to UK/Ukraine relations in the Health sector. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Kelly EVANS LVO | Head of Casework and Management Advice Team, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Neil FEINSON | Deputy Director, Trade in Goods, Department for International Trade. | For services to International Trade and Diversity. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Daniel FERTIG | Partner, Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers, Seoul, The Republic of Korea. | For services to UK business and cultural relations in The Republic of Korea. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Matthew FIELD | lately H.M. Ambassador Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Nicholas GODFREY | Director, Examination Services China, British Council. | For services to UK/China cultural and educational relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Nicolas HARROCKS | Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Lt Col (Rtd.) James Philip HOLMES | Chief Executive Officer, Pipal Tree. | For services to Vulnerable People in Nepal. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Professor Rachel JENKINS | Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Mental Health Policy, Kings College London. | For services to Mental Health policy and research in the UK and overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Hua JIANG | Former Director of News and Media, United Nations, New York, United States of America. | For services to International Communications. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Lt Col (Rtd.) Andrew KENT | Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, Scotland. | For services to UK health support overseas, particularly in Ukraine, and during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Rachel KESSLER | Humanitarian Adviser. | For services to the UK’s humanitarian response in Ukraine. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Patricia KINANE | President Entertainment Programs, FremantleMedia North America, Los Angeles, United States of America. | For services to Broadcasting and to the International Television Format industry. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Michael LAWRENCE | Chief Executive Officer, Asia House. | For services to UK international relations in Asia. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Professor David LEWIS | Politics Department, University of Exeter. | For services to the development of UK Government policy in Eastern Europe and Russia. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Desiree LEWIS | Permanent Secretary, Health, Turks and Caicos Islands. | For services to Health in the Turks and Caicos Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Professor Lesley LOKKO | Founder and Director, Africa Futures Institute, Accra, Ghana. | For services to Architecture and to Education. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Matthew LOWNDS | lately Sanctions Officer, Russia Unit, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Thomas MURDOCH | Deputy Director, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Rosie WHITTAKER-MYLES | Attorney-at-Law, RWM Chambers, Cayman Islands. | For services to the community in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Dr. Lindsay PORTER | Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee, UK delegation to the International Whaling Commission. | For services to Marine Life conservation. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Gregory POWER | Founder and Board Chair, Global Partners Governance. | For services to Parliamentary Democracy, to Political Reform and to UK interests overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Dr. Paul RANSOM | Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, East Sussex. | For services to UK health support overseas, particularly in Ukraine, and during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Ilaria REGONDI | Acting H.M. Trade Commissioner to Europe and Country Director France, Department for International Trade, British Embassy Paris. | For services to Trade and Investment in Europe. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | David RILEY | lately Deputy Director, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Sonashah SHIVDASANI | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Soneva; and Founder, Six Senses. | For services to Tourism, to Sustainability and to Charity. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Michael Clive Franklyn SMITH | Founder, Ear Aid Nepal; Head of Service and Chief Surgeon, Ear Care Centre Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal. | For services to Deaf and Vulnerable People in Nepal. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Rosemarie SUISSA | Senior Executive Officer, Gibraltar Health Authority, Gibraltar. | For services to the Gibraltar Health Authority. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Sally THOMPSON MBE | Former Executive Director, The Border Consortium. | For services to humanitarian assistance on the Thailand/Myanmar border. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Martin THURSFIELD | Deputy Director, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Henry TIMMS | President and Chief Executive Officer, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, United States of America. | For services to the Arts and to Philanthropy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Peter WALTER | Employment Law Adviser, Human Resources Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Thomas Charles WILLIAMS | Director, Legs4Africa. | For services to Disabled People in Africa and to the Environment. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Robert YARDLEY | Deputy Director, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Felipe ALVIAR-BAQUERO | Trustee and Fundraiser, Children Change Colombia. | For services to Charity and to Vulnerable People in Colombia. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Dr. Edward BARNETT | Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy, Mogadishu, Somalia and lately Head, Humanitarian Response Group, Humanitarian and Migration Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to UK humanitarian response. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Vineet BHATIA | Chef. | For services to UK Cuisine, to Hospitality and to International Trade. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Rosalind BLUESTONE | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Goods for Good. | For services to Humanitarian Aid in the UK and overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Paula BOAST | Vice Chair, Bahrain British Business Forum, Bahrain. | For services to UK/Bahrain business relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Patricia BRUMAGE | Retired Teacher and School Governor. | For services to Education in Tanzania. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Peter CANDLER | Deputy Head, Iran Unit, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | David CARTER | Global Head of Counter Fraud, British Council. | For services to Countering Fraud & Corruption in the UK and overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Terence CHILDS | Founding Member and Chairman, Braeburn Schools Limited, Nairobi, Kenya. | For services to Education and to the wider community in Kenya and Tanzania. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Stuart CONNICK | Head, Sanctions Strategy and Capability, Sanctions Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Dr. Vince COOK | Chief Executive Officer, National Bank of Fujairah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. | For services to UK/UAE business relations and the British community in Dubai. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Beverley CORBETT | Trustee, Noah's Ark and community volunteer, Tenerife, Spain. | For services to British Nationals in Spain. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Naomi COWAN | Head of Climate Change and Energy, British Embassy Tokyo, Japan. | For services to UK/Japan collaboration on Climate Change. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Jacqueline DALEY | Head, Thematic Policy and Casework, Consular Assistance Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Nationals overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Daniel D'AMATO | Director, Gibraltar House, Brussels; Member of the Brexit Strategic Group. | For services to H.M. Government of Gibraltar. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Philip DAUBENY | Vice Chairman and former Chairman, Dogs Trust and Dogs Trust Worldwide. | For services to Animal Welfare in the UK and Overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Sarah DAVIES | Founder and Trustee, Mexican Disabled Children's Trust. | For services to Vulnerable and Disabled Children in Mexico. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Thomas ELPHICK | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Keith FOSSEY | Chair, Operations Manager and Trustee, Swaziland Schools’ Projects. | For services to Education in Eswatini. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Jeremy GILLEY | Actor, Filmmaker and Founder, Peace One Day. | For services to Global Peace. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | James GLASS | Chief Islander, Tristan da Cunha. | For services to the Marine Environment and to the island of Tristan da Cunha. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Sylvia GOODALL | Founder and Patron, The Mud House Children's Foundation, Tanzania. | For services to Education in Tanzania. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Edmund HACK | Overseas Security Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to the security and safety of UK staff and their families overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Lynette HARRIGAN | Marketing Manager, British Virgin Islands Tourist Board; Former President of the Rotary Club of Tortola, British Virgin Islands. | For services to International Travel during the Covid-19 pandemic and to the community in the British Virgin Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Jeremy HARRIS | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Alvin HARVEY | lately Adjutant, Royal Bermuda Regiment; Women’s Coach and Referee, Bermuda Rugby Football Union, Bermuda. | For services to the community in Bermuda. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Andrew HILL | Team Leader, Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to International Development. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Faraz KHAN | Founder and Director, Social, Entrepreneurship and Equity Development –SEED-Ventures. | For services to UK/Pakistan relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Dr. Joanne LAWSON | Head of Procurement Trade Policy, Department for International Trade. | For services to International Trade and Investment. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Jennifer LEWIS | Volunteer Manager, Primary School Libraries project in Uganda, Africa Education Trust. | For services to Education in Uganda. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Dr. Lucy LORD | Co-Founder, Patient Care Foundation; Co-Founder and Executive Chair, Mind Hong Kong. | For services to Health in Hong Kong. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Nicholas MARX | Director, Wildlife Rescue and Care, Wildlife Alliance, Cambodia. | For services to the protection of wildlife and to conservation in Cambodia. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Russell OGDEN | Lead Designer and Test Pilot, Ozone Paragliding; Paragliding World Champion 2021/2022. | For services to Paragliding. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Thomas OPPENHEIM | lately Head of Press, Public Affairs and Projects, British Embassy Moscow, Russia. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Timothy PHILLIPS | Principal Consultant, Teacher Development, British Council. | For services to International English language education. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Noreen RIOLS | British Novelist and Former Member of The Special Operations Executive. | For services to UK/France relations and World War II education. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Jeremy ROBERTS | ICT Section Manager/Equiano Project Manager, St. Helena Government. | For services to Information and Communications Technology and to the community in St. Helena. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Mari-Louise GORDON-ROE | lately Office Manager, Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League. | For services to Commonwealth ex-service men and women. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Sheila SEEWOORUTTUN | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Mohammed SHOKAT | Consular Regional Director Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, British Embassy Dubai, United Arab Emirates. | For services to British Nationals overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Benjamin SNOWDON | lately Deputy Head of Mission, British High Commission Kigali, Rwanda. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Mark STEADMAN | Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Lone Buffalo, Laos. | For services to Youth Development in Laos. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Peter SWEENEY | Chief Technology Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to Technology in H.M. Government. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Anthony Bruce TANNER | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | John THOMPSON | Chief Executive Officer and Board Member, Masiphumelele Corporation, Western Cape, South Africa. | For services to the Masiphumelele settlement in the Western Cape, South Africa. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Martin TILBURY | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Bumba Foundation, Uganda. | For services to Charity and to Community Development in Uganda and to the Red Cross in the UK. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Dr. Helen BORELAND-VINAS | Research Analyst, Europe Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | David WARDROP | Chair, Westminster United Nations Association, London. | For services to the United Nations and its institutions. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Gregory WATKINS | Executive Director, British Chamber of Commerce, Thailand. | For services to British Nationals in Thailand during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Jordan WYLIE | British Adventurer, Author, Television Personality and Former Soldier. | For services to Charity and to Education in the UK and overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Marcia ZONDERVAN | VISION 2020 LINKS Programme Manager and Assistant Professor, International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. | For services to the prevention of blindness overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Mark BURCHMORE | Post Security Manager, British Embassy Stockholm, Sweden. | For services to Security at the British Embassy in Stockholm. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Anne-Claire DESEILLIGNY | Political Officer, British Embassy Paris, France. | For services to commemorations in France. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Colm FLANAGAN | Head of School, Seoul Foreign School, The Republic of Korea. | For services to Education, to Charity and to Cultural Relations overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Antony FRANKLIN | Head Chef, Wilton Park. | For services to British Diplomacy. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Russell GRIFFITHS | retired Commercial Insurance Underwriter; Voluntary Insurance Advisor. | For services to Small Businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Judith GUMBS | Nurse and Founder, Just Tender Care Senior Citizens Home, Anguilla. | For services to Senior Citizens in Anguilla. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Mark HOPCRAFT | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Susan HORROCKS | Director and Conductor, the Cayman National Choir; Founder and Director, the Cayman National Orchestra, Cayman Islands. | For services to the Arts in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Reina JEFFERSON | Public Relations Officer, Founding Member and former President, the Cayman Islands Early Childhood Association, Cayman Islands. | For services to Literacy and Education in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | John LAWTON BEM (MIL.) | Manager, the Episkopi Station Running and Walking Club, Cyprus. | For services to Charity and to the community in Cyprus. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Nigel LINACRE | Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees, WellBoring. | For services to Water Provision in communities in Kenya and other countries in Africa. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Christopher LOCK | Founder, the Tank Memorial Ypres Salient Group, Belgium. | For services to the commemoration of British Servicemen and UK/Belgium relations. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Michele MASSON | President, HELP Vega Baja, Alicante, Spain. | For services to British Nationals in Spain. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Louis MIGNOT | lately Iran Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Claira RANGE | Deputy Director, Fairbanks Women's Prison, H.M. Cayman Island Prison Service; Director, Eagle House Rehabilitation Centre, Cayman Islands. | For services to the Prison Service and to the wider community in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Ewan REEKIE | Chieftain, The Bahrain Caledonian Society Awali. | For services to the British community in Bahrain. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Robert SCHOFIELD | Senior UK Overseas Territories Officer, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. | For services to the Environment and to the community in Tristan da Cunha. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Edward SPARROW | Second Secretary, British Embassy Tehran, Iran. | For services to British foreign policy and economic relations. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Michael TROTT | Director, Living Life Eastbourne. | For services to Humanitarian Aid and support for communities in the UK and abroad. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Anna TURNER | Lately Business Support Manager, Strategic Finance and Official Development Assistance Management Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to International Development. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Christopher WOODROW | Chairman, The British Club, Bahrain. | For services to the British community in Bahrain. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Jill YULE | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British foreign policy. |