Lindy Cameron

Lindy Cameron CB OBE is a British civil servant and diplomat who will assume office as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office on 19 October 2026. She previously served from 2024 to 2026 as British High Commissioner to India. From 2020 to 2024, she was chief executive officer at the National Cyber Security Centre, and before that, Director-General in the Northern Ireland Office and the Department for International Development. Cameron was born in Belfast. Her father was a founding member of the Corrymeela Community Peace and Reconciliation Centre. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford, where she studied modern history. She matriculated to Balliol College in 1991, before starting a course in international relations at Tufts University as a Fulbright scholar. After graduating, Cameron joined McKinsey & Company, where she worked as a management consultant until 1998. In 1998, Cameron joined the Department for International Development (DFID). She was head of the DFID Country Offices in Iraq and Afghanistan.