Director for North East Asia and China, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Policy Fellow, Centre for Science and Policy

Dan Chugg is Director for North East Asia and China at the FCDO, having previously been British Ambassador to Myanmar. Before that, Dan was Head of Counter-Daesh Communications Department and Head of the ISIL Taskforce. Dan has had postings to Beijing as Political Counsellor and to New Delhi as Director of Communications. His first overseas posting was at the British Consulate General in Hong Kong. This followed two years of Cantonese language training at SOAS and the Chinese University in Hong Kong.