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New Year Honours 2024 Overseas and International List: Order of the British Empire
Updated 29 December 2023
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| Level | Award | Name | Job title | Short citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Order of the British Empire (Commander) | CBE | The Honourable Albert Isola | Minister for Financial Services and Gaming, Gibraltar. | For services to the Financial and Digital Industries in Gibraltar. |
| Order of the British Empire (Commander) | CBE | George Koukis | Founder Temenos and Chair, The Mozartists. | For services to Music, to Medicine and to Education. (To be dated 25 September 2023) |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Richard Allan | Director and Chief Executive Officer, The Mentor Initiative. | For services to Victims of War and Natural Disasters. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Robert Berry | Director, Financial Reporting Authority, Cayman Islands. | For services to the UK Sanctions Regime and Global Financial Standards in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Dr. Ruth Lawson | Development Director and Chargé d’Affaires, British Embassy Khartoum, Sudan. | For services to International Development and British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Kevin Billings | Honorary Group Captain, 601 (County of London) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. | For services to the Royal Air Force in the United States of America and the UK. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Paul Britton | Chair, Tate Americas Foundation. | For services to The Arts and to Philanthropy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Kevin Burke | Arts Philanthropist and Board Member, BAFTA Hong Kong Advisory Board. | For services to Charity and to Philanthropy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Philip Davies | Principal, Philip Davies (Heritage and Planning) Ltd. | For services to UK and Commonwealth Heritage. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Luke Dearden | lately Political Counsellor, UK Delegation to NATO, Brussels, Belgium. | For services to British Foreign and Security Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Duncan Edwards | Chief Executive Officer, BritishAmerican Business, and Honorary Director, The St. George’s Society, New York, United States of America. | For services to UK/US Trade relations and to Charity. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd) Michael Edwards | lately Senior Reports Officer, Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring and Verification Mechanism, Juba, South Sudan. | For services to Peace in South Sudan. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Brian Hancock | Surgeon, Wythenshaw Hospital; Founding Member and Trustee, Uganda Childbirth Injury Fund. | For services to Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Susan Hannam | Vice President, CUDECA Hospice Foundation, Spain. | For services to Palliative Care and Volunteering Services in Spain. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Laura Hickey | lately Director Multilateral and Human Rights, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to Crisis Management and British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Katy Higginson | lately Deputy Head, Royal and Coronation Unit, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy, to International Development and to The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Dr. Andi Hoxhaj | Lecturer in Law (Assistant Professor of Law), University College London. | For services to UK/Albania Relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Professor Alan Jamieson | Director, Deep Sea Centre, University of Western Australia. | For services to Marine Biology, Subsea Engineering and Exploration. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Dipak Karadia | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Haifa Al Kaylani | President and Founder, Arab International Women’s Forum. | For services to Women, to Young People and to Cultural Relations between the UK and the countries of the Middle East and North Africa region. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Moses Kirkconnell III | Member of Parliament for Cayman Brac West and Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. | For services to the Caymanian People, to the Tourism Industry and to District Administration in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Gabrielle Kirstein | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Feeding Hong Kong. | For services to the Community and Tackling Food Waste and Food Poverty in Hong Kong. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Leona Lewis | Singer-Songwriter, Performer and Philanthropist. | For services to Music and to Charity. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Sarah Lingard | lately Head of Events, Royal and Coronation Unit, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy and to The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Lukas May | lately Deputy Director, Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Department for Business and Trade. | For services to International Trade. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Kyron McMaster | Track and Field Athlete, British Virgin Islands. | For services to Sport in the British Virgin Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Catherine O'Neill | lately Joint Head, Royal and Coronation Unit, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy and to The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Professor Nicholas Paton | Professor of Infectious Diseases, National University of Singapore and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. | For services to Global Health. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Jacqueline Perkins | H.M. Ambassador, Minsk, Belarus. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Ashley Pigott | Chairman and Managing Director, AJ Power, Northern Ireland. | For services to UK Exports and Manufacturing. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Lawrence Podesta | lately Chief Executive Officer, Gibraltar International Bank Ltd, Gibraltar. | For services to Banking in Gibraltar. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | George Robinson | Deputy Director, Trade and Goods, Windsor Framework Taskforce, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Taban Shoresh | Genocide Survivor and Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Lotus Flower. | For services to Refugees and Displaced Conflict Survivors in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Professor Gareth Stansfield | Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean, University of Exeter. | For services to UK interests in Iraq. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Michael Vidler | Solicitor, lately of Vidlers and Co Solicitors, Hong Kong. | For services to Justice and to Human Rights in Hong Kong. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Emma Walters | Head of Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd) Christopher Warren | Secretary General, Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League. | For services to Commonwealth Veterans. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Colin Whorlow | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | John Adams | Chair, British Retirement Home Association, Portugal. | For services to the Community and Voluntary Organisations in Portugal. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Joy Atkinson | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Nicola Barrett | Head, Corporate Services, British Embassy Moscow, Russia. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Liza Barry | Deputy Director, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Geoffrey Booker | Founding Chairman and Field Director, The Quicken Trust and The GB Trust. | For services to the community in Kabubbu, Uganda. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Geraldine Booker | Director of Development, The Quicken Trust and The GB Trust. | For services to the community in Kabubbu, Uganda. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Sian Bowsley | Head, Agrifood and Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS), Windsor Framework Taskforce, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Chris Broadbent | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Keith Buckley | Chairman, British Chamber of Commerce, Macao; Chairman, The Lighthouse Club (Macao Branch) charity. | For services to the Local Community and British Interests in Macao |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Scott Burgess | Acting Overseas Security Manager, British Embassy Tehran, Iran. | For services to the British Embassy Tehran. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Adina Munroe-Charlow | Chairperson, Royal British Legion, Bahamas Branch. | For services to Veterans in The Bahamas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Gillian Clasby | Founder and lately Teacher, Harmanli Refugee Camp Play School, Bulgaria. | For services to the Humanitarian Support of Refugee Children in Bulgaria. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Sadie Clasby-Jarrous | Founder and lately Manager, Harmanli Refugee Camp Play School, Bulgaria. | For services to the Humanitarian Support of Refugee Children in Bulgaria. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Timothy Conibear | Founder, Waves for Change. | For services to Young People Overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | John Crouch | lately Technical Works Supervisor, British Embassy Mogadishu, Somalia. | For services to the UK Government Overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Sophie Dyer | lately Counsellor, Trade Policy, British Embassy Tokyo, Japan. | For services to Trade. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Deborah Edgington | Councillor for Tourism, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain. | For services to British Nationals in Fuerteventura. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Richard Field | Independent Voluntary and Charity Worker in rural Uganda. | For services to Young People and Health in Uganda. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Kelly Fisher | Professional Pool, Snooker and English Billiards player. | For services to Sport. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Nigel Fossey | Principal, The Sultan’s School, Oman and formerly Headmaster, King´s College School, Panama. | For services to British Education Overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Lowri Griffiths | Head, Ocean Policy Unit, Legal Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to Ocean Protection. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Joanne Hare | Deputy Director, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Ann Haydon | Head, Harrow International School, Hong Kong. | For services to British Education in the UK and Hong Kong. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Frank Menzies-Hearn | Volunteer Piper, Commemorative events in Greece. | For services to Commemorations and Veterans in Greece. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Brenda Heather-Latu | British Honorary Consul, Apia, Samoa. | For services to British Nationals in Samoa. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Robert Hicks | Surgical Team Lead, Hernia International Carpenter and Ghana Healthcare Partners, Leyaata Hospital, Ghana; Consultant Surgeon, Northampton General Hospital. | For Services to Health in Northern Ghana. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Gregory Holland | Chief Executive Officer, British Chamber of Commerce, Santiago, Chile. | For services to UK/Chile Bilateral Trade and Investment. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Daren Hughes | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Dr. Brad Irwin | Head of Global Engagement, Natural History Museum. | For services to UK Culture and the Arts. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Paula Jack | Justice Adviser, Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas. | For services to Child Justice Reform, to Human Rights and to International Relations in Bahrain. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Tig James | Co-President, British in Portugal. | For services to the British Community in Portugal. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Cosimo Jencks | lately General Manager, Hongkong Land Group and Head of Commercial Development, Commercial Property, South Asia. | For services to Business, to Charity and to Sustainable Development in Vietnam. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Jennifer Larby | Executive Officer, British Legion Kenya. | For services to the British and Commonwealth ex-services community in Kenya. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Dr. Matthew Linkie | Regional Technical Director, Wildlife Conservation Society. | For services to Biodiversity Conservation in Indonesia. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Michael Lubbock | Conservationist, Sylvan Height's Waterfowl Park and EcoCenter, North Carolina, United States of America. | For services to Global Wildlife Conservation of Water Birds. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Dr. Robert Lyman | Author of Military History; Trustee and former Chairman, the Kohima Educational Trust. | For services to Military History and to Charitable Work in Nagaland, Northeast India. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Steven Lynch | lately Managing Director, British Chamber of Commerce, Beijing, China. | For services to the British Business Community in China. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Mary Martin | Board Member and Honorary Treasurer, Cheshire Homes, Mbabane, Eswatini. | For services to People with Disabilities in Eswatini. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Sharon Martin | Educator (retired), the Government’s Public Education System, Cayman Islands. | For services to Education and to the community in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Justin McPhee | lately Commanding Officer, Falkland Islands Defence Force. | For services to Defence in the Falkland Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Diane Miles | Co-Founder and Trustee, Afrikaya charity, The Gambia. | For services to Education in The Gambia. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | John Mitchell | Head of Roamer Team, Eastern European and Central Asia Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | John Monaghan | Station Manager (retired), Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service; Founder and Project Manager, Fire Aid Nepal. | For services to Emergency and Disaster Response and to local Communities in Nepal. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Calypso Nash | lately Acting Head of Chancery, British Embassy Tehran, Iran. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Roseanne Park | Musician/Performer. | For services to the United Kingdom COP 26 Presidency and advocacy for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Gina Petrie | Director, Department of Environment, Cayman Islands. | For services to the Environment and to the community in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Richard Power | Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust; Chair, Health Action Leicester in Ethiopia. | For services to Health in Gondar, Northern Ethiopia. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Natalie Pray | Former President, the St George’s Society, New York, United States of America. | For services to UK/US Cultural Relations and to Philanthropy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Phillip Robinson | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | James Rogers | Head of Coordination, Windsor Framework Taskforce, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Lynette Silver | Historian and Author. | For services to British Families of World War II personnel. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Claire van Straubenzee | Founder and Trustee, The Henry van Straubenzee Memorial Fund. | For services to Children’s Education in Uganda. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Robert Syfret | Angola Programme Manager, the HALO Trust. | For services to Humanitarian Demining in Angola. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Margery Taylor | District Treasurer and District Training Officer, Royal British Legion, Spain South. | For services to Veterans in Spain. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | John Thurlow | Head of Change and Labs, Information and Digital Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Dr. Rosemary Trevelyan | Director, The Tropical Biology Association. | For services to Environmental Science and International Conservation. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Pamela Vipond | Deputy Director, Olympic Solidarity, the International Olympic Committee. | For services to Sport. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Paul Walker | Co-Founder and Co-Director, Wildtracks, Belize. | For services to Conservation and Biodiversity in Belize. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Zoe Walker | Co-Founder and Co-Director, Wildtracks, Belize. | For services to Conservation and Biodiversity in Belize. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | David Warmback | Honorary Consul, Durban, South Africa. | For services to British Nationals in South Africa. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Christopher Wicker | President and Trustee, Hertford British Hospital Charity; Secretary General, Save the Valletta Skyline Appeal. | For services to Charity and to British Nationals in France and Malta. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Steven Williams | Kyaninga Child Development Centre and Kyaninga Forest Foundation, Uganda. | For services to Disabled Children and Local Communities in Western Uganda. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Helen Banton | Representative, the Yorks and Lancaster Regimental Association, France. | For services to Veterans and to Local Communities in France. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Joe Barnsley | lately Honorary Consul, Manitoba, Canada. | For services to British Nationals in Manitoba, Canada. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Heidemarie Bell | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | David Brown | President, MACS Charity Mojacar Area Cancer Support, Spain. | For services to People with Cancer in Spain. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Nicola Davies | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Julie Fry | National Health Service Administrator and Kenyan Project Co-Founder and Volunteer. | For services to Education and Health in Kenya. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Siobhan Hall | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Dr. Jonathan Hollins | Veterinary Surgeon (retired), St Helena. | For services to Veterinary Science and Animals on St Helena. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Poppy Hudson | lately Crisis Contingency Planner, Crisis Management Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to Crisis Management. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | John Humphreys | Former Chairman, British Charitable Fund and Volunteer in the British community, Belgium. | For services to The British Community in Belgium. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Nicholas Joanes | lately President, The British Society, Mexico. | For services to Charity and to the British Community in Mexico. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Maria Lemos | Housekeeper, British High Commission Residence, Ottawa, Canada. | For services to UK/Canada relations. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Dr. Marion Lynch | Global Health Consultant; Founder and Director, Fiona Foundation for Kids, working with Tushinde, Kenya. | For services to Women and Children in Africa. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Sharon Melrose | Not set | For services to Swimming in Malawi. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Jina Phenix | Business Development Manager, British Chamber of Commerce Thailand. | For services to British Nationals in Thailand during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Heidy Spurrell | Chief Executive Officer, Future Green, Hong Kong. | For services to sustainability in the Food and Beverage Industry. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Dr. William Webster | Bereavement Counsellor, Mississauga, Canada. | For services to the Bereaved in Canada and the UK. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Jill Wood | Horticulture Volunteer, the Queen Elizabeth II Royal Botanic Park, Cayman Islands. | For services to the community in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Gladys Young | Government Hospitality Assistant. | For services to UK Government Hospitality Event Delivery. |