Alastair Morgan

{{Short description|British diplomat}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = His Excellency

| name = Alastair Morgan

| honorific_suffix ={{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CMG}}

| image = Alastair Morgan 2024.jpg

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| office = British Ambassador to North Korea

| term_start = December 2015

| term_end = December 2018

| predecessor = Michael Gifford

| successor = Colin Crooks

| monarch = Elizabeth II

| primeminister = David Cameron
Theresa May

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|5|28|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Camberley, Surrey, England[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U284054 MORGAN, Alastair William James], Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015), accessed 25 May 2016

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| nationality = British

| occupation = Diplomat

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Alastair William James Morgan {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CMG}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/62507/supplement/N3|title=New Year Honours 2019|last=HM Government|date=2018-12-29|website=thegazette.co.uk|access-date=2018-12-29}} (born 28 May 1958) is a British diplomat. He was the United Kingdom ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.{{cite press release|title=Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-korea--2|website=GOV.UK|accessdate=25 May 2016|date=11 May 2015}}{{cite web|title=British Ambassador to Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Alastair Morgan|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/alastair-morgan|website=GOV.UK|accessdate=25 May 2016}}[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-korea-in-december-2018 Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in December 2018] – UK Government(December 2018)

In his diplomatic career, he served mainly in East Asia especially in China and Japan; namely, First Secretary in Tokyo from 1991 to 1996, Director of Investment in Tokyo from 2002 to 2006, Commercial Counsellor in Beijing from 2007 to 2010, and as Consul-General in Guangzhou from 2010 to 2014. He then served as the British ambassador to North Korea from December 2015 to December 2018, after which he was replaced by Colin Crooks.

Morgan was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the New Year Honours for 2019.