Matthew Rycroft
Sir Matthew Rycroft | |
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| Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office | |
| In office 23 March 2020 – 28 March 2025 | |
| Home Secretary | |
| Preceded by | Sir Philip Rutnam |
| Succeeded by | Dame Antonia Romeo |
| Permanent Under-Secretary of State for International Development | |
| In office 22 January 2018 – 20 March 2020 | |
| Secretary of State | Penny Mordaunt Rory Stewart Alok Sharma Anne-Marie Trevelyan |
| Preceded by | Mark Lowcock |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations | |
| In office 25 April 2015 – 19 January 2018 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Mark Lyall Grant |
| Succeeded by | Karen Pierce |
| Her Majesty's Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| In office 1 March 2005 – 30 July 2008 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Ian Cliff |
| Succeeded by | Michael Tatham |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 June 1968 Southampton, Hampshire, England |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford (BA) |
Sir Matthew John Rycroft KCMG CBE (/ˈraɪkrɒft/; born 16 June 1968) is a British civil servant and diplomat who served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from March 2020 to March 2025, appointed following the resignation of Sir Philip Rutnam. Rycroft previously served as Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Development (DFID) from 2018 to 2020 and as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 2015 to 2018.