Antonia Romeo

Dame Antonia Romeo
Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office
Assumed office
14 April 2025
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Home SecretaryYvette Cooper
Preceded bySir Matthew Rycroft
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice
In office
18 January 2021  11 April 2025
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Keir Starmer
Lord ChancellorRobert Buckland
Dominic Raab
Brandon Lewis
Alex Chalk
Shabana Mahmood
Preceded bySir Richard Heaton
Succeeded byAmy Rees (acting)
Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Trade
In office
March 2017  18 February 2021
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Boris Johnson
Secretary of StateLiam Fox
Liz Truss
Preceded byMartin Donnelly
Succeeded byJames Bowler
Foreign Office Director-General for Economic and Domestic Affairs
(United States)
In office
February 2015  October 2015
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byMelanie Dawes
Succeeded byJonathan Slater
Her Majesty's Consul-General in New York
In office
July 2016  2017
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Preceded byDanny Lopez
Succeeded byAntony Phillipson
Personal details
Born
Antonia Rebecca Caroline Angharad Catherine Rice-Evans

(1974-10-20) 20 October 1974
Spouse
John Romeo
(m. 1999)
Children3
EducationBrasenose College, Oxford (MA)[Oxon]
Columbia University (MPA)
London School of Economics (MSc)

Dame Antonia Rebecca Caroline Angharad Catherine Romeo DCB (née Rice-Evans; born 20 October 1974) is a British civil servant. She was appointed Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office in April 2025. She was the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, the permanent secretary at the Department for International Trade and before that, the British consul-general in New York for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and concurrently director-general for economic and commercial affairs in the USA.