Knighthood for Tom Drew in New Year Honours

Trinity alumnus Tom Drew has been awarded the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG) for services to British Foreign Policy and National Security in the King’s New Year Honours.

Mr Drew matriculated at Trinity in 1989 to read Classics, graduating with a first-class degree. He is currently Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office director general for defence and intelligence. In his distinguished career in foreign policy he has served as British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Principal Private Secretary (Chief of Staff) to Foreign Secretaries William Hague and Philip Hammond. He served previously as the FCO’s National Security Director (2011 to 2012), responsible for international counter-terrorism, cyber, drugs and crime, and intelligence issues; and before that as Director in the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism in the Home Office (2008 to 2011).