2023 New Year Honours


The 2023 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January and those for 2023 were announced on 30 December 2022.
The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by the country whose ministers advised Charles III on the appointments, then by the honour and by the honour's grade, and then by divisions, as appropriate.
The 2023 New Year Honours was the first honours list issued by King Charles III.

United Kingdom

Below are the individuals appointed by Charles III in his right as King of the United Kingdom with honours within his own gift and with the advice of the Government for other honours.

The Order of the Companions of Honour

Member of the Order of Companions of Honour (CH)

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

  • The Lord Sedwill,, former Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser. For services to British foreign policy, to National Security and H.M. Government.

    Knight / Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG / DCMG)

  • Deborah Jane Bronnert,, H.M. Ambassador Moscow, Russia. For services to British foreign policy.
  • Professor Fiona Elizabeth Murray,, Associate Dean of Innovation and Inclusion and William Porter Professor of Entrepreneurship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Management, United States of America. For services to Science, to Technology and to Diversity.
  • Melinda Veronica Simmons, H.M. Ambassador Kyiv, Ukraine. For services to British foreign policy.
  • Masood Ahmed, President, Center for Global Development. For services to International Development.
  • Dr. Mohamed Fathi Ahmed Ibrahim, Founder, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. For services to Charity and to Philanthropy.
  • Dr. David Nunes Nabarro,, World Health Organisation Special Envoy for Covid-19 Prevention and Response. For services to Global Health.
  • Matthew John Rycroft,, Permanent Secretary, Home Office. For services to British Diplomacy, Development and Domestic Policy.
  • The Right Honourable Alok Kumar Sharma,, President, the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties. For services to tackling Climate Change.

    Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

  • Stephanie Jane Al-Qaq, lately Director, Middle East and North Africa Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British foreign policy.
  • Matthew John Burney, British Council Director, China. For services to UK cultural relations overseas.
  • Emma Clare Gardiner, Director General, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British foreign policy.
  • Richard Michael John Ogilvie Graham,, Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. For services to Trade and Investment in South-East Asia.
  • Dr. Lawrence James Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. For services to International Nutrition, Food and Agriculture.
  • Martin Fergus Harris, lately Director, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British foreign policy.
  • Edward Andrew Beauchamp Hobart, Director, Estates, Security and Network Directorate, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British foreign policy and to National Security.
  • Alan Johnson, President, the International Federation of Accountants. For services to the Accountancy profession.
  • Malcolm Johnson, Deputy Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. For services to The United Nations, to the Commonwealth and to global Information and Communication Technologies.
  • Professor Maxine Deirdre Molyneux, Professor of Sociology, University College London Institute of the Americas. For services to International Development and UK/Latin America relations.
  • Richard Hugh Montgomery, lately UK Representative and Group Executive Director, World Bank. For services to British foreign policy and to International Development.
  • Dr. John Evan Murton, Conference of the Parties Envoy, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British foreign policy and to Climate Change.
  • Ailsa Juliana Terry, Director, Sanctions Taskforce, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. For services to British foreign policy.
  • David Gerald Wolseley Wightwick, Chief Executive Officer, UK-Med. For services to UK humanitarian support.

    Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)