Sir David Quarrey {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}}{{cite press release | url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-the-state-of-israel | title=Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the State of Israel | publisher=Foreign and Commonwealth Office | date=24 February 2015 | accessdate=20 August 2015}} (born 1966) is a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to NATO from 2022 to 2025. He was formerly acting National Security Adviser, having taken over the role while David Frost continued as the United Kingdom's Chief Negotiator to the European Union during the Brexit negotiations.{{cite web |url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/695574/response/1663299/attach/3/FOI2020%2013631%20REPLY.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1 |title=Deputy National Security Advisers |author= |date=23 October 2020 |website=whatdotheyknow.com |publisher=Whatdotheyknow |access-date=23 October 2020 |quote=David Frost remains Chief Negotiator for the EU talks and those negotiations will remain his top single priority until they have concluded, one way or another. Therefore, the Prime Minister agreed that David Quarrey should become Acting NSA}}{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-gives-spymaster-paintings-to-outgoing-cabinet-secretary-sir-mark-sedwill-a4542711.html|title=Boris Johnson gives 'spymaster' paintings to outgoing Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill|work= Evening Standard|last=Sleigh|first=Sophia|date=8 September 2020|access-date=1 January 2021|quote=He said the deputy NSA David Quarrey will take over from Sir Mark provisionally until date in October.}} He was the UK's Ambassador to Israel from 2015 to 2019.{{Cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/david-quarrey |title=David Quarrey CMG|website=gov.uk |access-date=23 October 2019}}

Career

Quarrey, who joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1994,{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/britains-new-ambassador-arrives-in-israel |title=Britain's new ambassador arrives in Israel |publisher=British Embassy Tel Aviv |date=13 July 2015| accessdate=5 February 2019}}{{cite news | url=http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/British-Foreign-Office-announces-David-Quarrey-will-be-UKs-next-ambassador-to-Israel-392055#article=6020OEEyODlDNzAzRUU2RkIwNjQxN0E2QTY0Rjg4MDI0OUM= | title=British Foreign Office announces David Quarrey will be UK's next ambassador to Israel | work=The Jerusalem Post | date=24 February 2015 | accessdate=19 August 2015 | author=Lewis, Jerry}} previously directed its Near East and North Africa Department. He has also served as a British diplomat in Harare, in Delhi and at the United Nations in New York. When Tony Blair was British prime minister, he was his private secretary for two years.{{cite news | url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/firstly-openly-gay-uk-ambassador-proud-to-be-in-israel/ | title=First openly gay UK ambassador 'proud' to be in Israel | work=Times of Israel | date=10 August 2015 | accessdate=19 August 2015 | author=Winer, Stuart}}

Quarrey's term as Ambassador to Israel ended in June 2019. He was replaced by Neil Wigan.[https://www.gov.uk/government/people/neil-wigan/ Ambassador to Israel: Neil Wigan OBE. GOV.UK] Retrieved 16 October 2019.

Quarrey was previously Prime Minister Boris Johnson's International Affairs Adviser and Deputy National Security Adviser.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/no-10-aide-david-quarrey-caught-covid-on-india-trip-lp7bgqc9g|title=No 10 aide David Quarrey caught Covid on India trip|work=The Sunday Times|last=Wheeler|first=Caroline|date=25 April 2021|access-date=25 April 2021}} In April 2022 he was appointed as the British Ambassador to NATO. {{Cite web |title=Prime Minister appoints Mr David Quarrey CMG as the UK's new Permanent Representative to NATO |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-appoints-mr-david-quarrey-cmg-as-the-uks-new-permanent-representative-to-nato |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sarah MacIntosh |url=https://twitter.com/sarahmacfcdo/status/1518305861646626822 |access-date=2022-06-15 |website=Twitter |language=en}}

Personal life

Quarrey was Britain's first openly homosexual Ambassador to Israel. His husband is Aldo Oliver Henriquez.{{Cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Meet-the-Ambassador-Britains-David-Quarrey-469404 |title=Meet the Ambassador: Britain's Dvaid Quarrey |last=Cashman |first=Greer Fay |date=5 October 2016 |work=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=23 October 2019}}

In 2021, he tested positive for the Indian variant of COVID-19 after returning from a government business trip to India.