UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
According to a statement posted on the UK government’s website, Laure Beaufils has been appointed to the position and she will assume in August of this year.
Beaufils is currently deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa of the UK Department for International Development.
“Ms Laure Beaufils has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines and Her Majesty’s Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Palau in succession to Mr. Daniel Pruce,” said the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
In a Twitter post on Thursday, April 1, Pruce congratulated the UK’s new top diplomat to Manila.