International Relations Working Group Member
Chair of Project Prospero Steering Committee
Audit Committee Member

Joined April 2016

Dame Anne Pringle is a career diplomat. She was Ambassador to Russia (2008-11); Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2001-4); and Director for Strategy and on the FCO Board (2004-2007). She spent a third of her career on EU policy issues and served twice in Brussels. Since leaving the FCO in 2012, Anne has taken on various roles: senior Governor of St Andrews University, her alma mater (2016-); a non-Executive Director of Ashmore Group plc (2013-); Public Appointments Assessor (2012-16); and the Government’s Special Representative on Deportation with Assurances (2013-15). She was on the Foreign Secretary’s advisory Locarno Group from 2013-16.