Nic Hailey

Executive Director

Nic Hailey CMG joined International Alert as Executive Director in September 2021. 

Prior to this role, he spent 24 years in the UK Diplomatic Service, most recently as a Director-General at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (responsible for the merger of the FCO and DFID); High Commissioner (i.e. UK Ambassador) to Kenya 2015-19; Africa Director 2013-15; and deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan 2012-13.  He previously served in UK embassies in Washington DC, Berlin and Paris as well as a range of roles in London.

Nic was educated at a Steiner Waldorf school, Cambridge University and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (Paris).  He is British and French, married with two teenage children.