Timothy Morris


Timothy Colin Morris is a British diplomat who has served as ambassador to Morocco, Mauritania, and South Sudan.

Career

After joining the foreign office in 1981, Morris received postings to Tokyo, Madrid, and Lisbon as well as several posts in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. His first appointment as an ambassador was to the Kingdom of Morocco and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, simultaneously, in 2008. He remained in this position until 2012, followed by a term in London, during which he was firstly Sahel co-ordinator, and then Special Envoy to the South Sudan Peace Talks, before assuming a temporary position of interim Head of Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After 6 months in Kinshasa, he was appointed the fourth British Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan in 2015.