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Sarah Montgomery OBE was the UK鈥檚 Special Envoy for the Red Sea and Horn of Africa, from June 2022 to May 2024.

Prior to this, Sarah was:

• Trade and Economic Counsellor in the British Embassy Washington
• Head of the Gulf, Yemen and Iran teams in the UK National Security Secretariat (and NSS lead on international strategy and engagement during the COVID-19 response)
• Development Director in the British High Commission, Kenya (in the then Department for International Development)

She has previously held roles as:

• Head of DFID Iraq overseeing the UK鈥檚 humanitarian and stabilisation response to the Daesh crisis
• DFID鈥檚 Ukraine lead, establishing teams in London and Kyiv in 2014
• Senior DFID Representative to the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan
• Middle East lead in the UK Government鈥檚 Stabilisation Unit
• Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Before joining the UK Civil Service in 2007, Sarah worked as a researcher in the House of Commons.

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