Matthew Rycroft

Sir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 March 2020
Home Secretary	Priti Patel Suella Braverman Grant Shapps Suella Braverman James Cleverly
Preceded by	Sir Philip Rutnam
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for International Development
In office 22 January 2018 – 20 March 2020
Secretary of State	Penny Mordaunt Rory Stewart Alok Sharma Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Preceded by	Mark Lowcock
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
In office 25 April 2015 – 19 January 2018
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	David Cameron Theresa May
Preceded by	Mark Lyall Grant
Succeeded by	Karen Pierce
Her Majesty's Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office 1 March 2005 – 30 July 2008
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Tony Blair Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Ian Cliff
Succeeded by	Michael Tatham
Personal details
Born	(1968-06-16) 16 June 1968 (age 56) Southampton, United Kingdom
Alma mater	Merton College, Oxford (BA)

Sir Matthew John Rycroft KCMG CBE (/ˈraɪkrɒft/; born 16 June 1968) is a British civil servant and diplomat serving as Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office since 2020, appointed following the resignation of Sir Philip Rutnam. Rycroft previously served as Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Development (DFID) from 2018 to 2020 and as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 2015 to 2018.^[1]