Denis Keefe

Denis Keefe CMG
Born	Denis Edward Peter Paul Keefe (1958-06-29) 29 June 1958 (age 66)
Education	The Campion School
Alma mater	Churchill College, Cambridge Hertford College, Oxford

Denis Edward Peter Paul Keefe CMG (born 29 June 1958) is a British diplomat and former Ambassador to Serbia and to Georgia.

Biography

Keefe was educated at The Campion School and studied Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge and Hellenistic Greek poetry at Hertford College, Oxford. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1982 and served at Nairobi and twice at Prague as well as at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London. In 2007 he studied Georgian and Russian at Malmö University in preparation for his appointment as ambassador.

Keefe was Ambassador to Georgia 2007–10 including the Russo-Georgian war in 2008. He was one of the victims of the 2010 Georgian news report hoax.

Keefe was Minister and Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow 2010–14. During this time, Russian media harassed him and accused him of being a MI6 officer, possibly because of his supposed actions in Georgia.^[1]

Keefe was appointed Ambassador to Serbia from June 2014.^[2] In 2019 he was succeeded in the role by Sian MacLeod. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2016 New Year Honours.^[3]

References

• KEEFE, Denis Edward Peter Paul, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013
• Mr Denis Keefe Authorised Biography, Debrett's People of Today

1. Spying claims against top British diplomat threaten Anglo-Russian détente, The Daily Telegraph, London, 9 March 2013
2. Denis Keefe, Ambassador to Serbia, gov.uk
3. "No. 61450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2015. p. N4.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Donald MacLaren	Ambassador to Georgia 2007–2010	Succeeded by Judith Gough
Preceded by Michael Davenport	Ambassador to Serbia 2014–2019	Succeeded by Sian MacLeod