Ross Allen

Ross has been Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Estonia since June 2021.  Prior to that he has served in a variety of roles within the UK civil service and on secondment to the private sector (cv below).  Ross is married and has a daughter born in 2015 and two sons born in 2017 and 2019.  Ross speaks Arabic and some German and French, and is learning Estonian.  Ross tweets @rceallen

Ross was born in 1978 and grew up in south London and then Kent.  He was brought up in a single parent household and went to a grammar school in Kent, then Cambridge University.  He enjoys singing in an Estonian choir, running, wild swimming and saunas, and spends a lot of his weekends taking his children to birthday parties.  He also likes football (he supports Crystal Palace) and cricket.  His wife, Suzie, is a wine buyer (as a job, not just casually!).

2016 – 2020            Deputy Consul General New York and Deputy Trade Commissioner, North America

2015 – 2016            UK Trade and Investment (now Department for International Trade)

2014 – 2015            Head of Consular Assistance Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

2013 – 2014            Secondment to Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, London

2010 – 2013            Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister, Cabinet Office

2008 – 2010            First Secretary, British Embassy, Washington DC

2007 – 2008            Press Officer to the Minister for Europe, FCO

2003 – 2006            Her Majesty’s Consul, Political, Jerusalem

2002 – 2003            Full time Arabic language training

2001 – 2002            Non-proliferation department, FCO

2001                       First class BA (Hons), Theology, Trinity Hall, Cambridge