Joanna Roper
Joanna Louise Roper, formally styled Lady Drew, is a British diplomat who served as the British Ambassador to the Netherlands and
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at The Hague from October 2020 to July 2025.
Career
After working in the Home Office from 1992 to 2000, Roper joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2001.Appointed as the FCO's Special Envoy for Gender Equality in 2017, Roper's former posts included serving as deputy head and then interim head of the FCO's Counter-Terrorism Department, head of the FCO's China Department, as well as director of the United Kingdom's worldwide consular services.
As a diplomat, Roper has served in postings to Japan, Pakistan and China.