Lindsay Skoll
Lindsay Samantha Skoll CMG is a British diplomat. Since 2021, she has served as the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Austria and the UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna. In August 2026 she will become Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.
Early life and education
Skoll is from Manchester. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History with Russian from the University of Nottingham in 1992. She received a TEFL qualification from the University of Edinburgh in 1993.Career
Skoll joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1996, having previously worked for the Japanese Ministry of Education.High Commissioner to the Republic of Seychelles
Skoll was British High Commissioner to the Republic of Seychelles between 2012 and 2015. Upon leaving the post, she called her mission "eventful, but hopeful". She officiated at the first same sex marriage to occur in Seychelles. The marriage was between two men, one a British national and the other a Seychellois national who held a British passport.Seychelles Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs Maurice Loustau-Lalanne described Skoll's decision to conduct the marriage as “lacking in sensitivity”. The British High Commission responded to criticism by stating that the men “were legally entitled to be married by an appropriate British official on British territory”.