Sir Richard Dalton

Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House

Sir Richard Dalton is an Associate Fellow on the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, a post he has held since retiring from the civil service in 2006. He joined HM Diplomatic Service in the 1970s and was posted to the Middle East. In the mid-1990s he was consul-general in Jerusalem and was appointed as Head of Personnel in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1998. From 2003 until his retirement he was the British Ambassador to Iran. Dalton contributes sporadically to publications such as the Independent and the Guardian.