Tom Woodroffe

Mr. Tom Woodroffe was appointed as the UK’s Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council in July 2019. This is his second appointment to the UN in New York, having previously covered human rights and gender issues. Mr. Woodroffe has a wider background in multilateral and conflict related work, including serving as the Head of the UK’s Syria Overseas Network in Istanbul, as Deputy Head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Conflict Department, as head of the Office of the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, and various roles in the FCO’s UN and human rights departments.