Ms Helen Winterton

Ms. Helen Winterton serves as His Majesty’s Consul-General to Jerusalem, succeeding Ms. Diane Corner OBE. She took up her appointment in December 2024. Ms. Winterton has an extensive diplomatic career, having served as His Majesty’s Ambassador to Tunis from 2021 to 2024. Prior to that, she underwent full-time Arabic language training from 2020 to 2021. From 2018 to 2020, she was the Deputy Director for the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East and North Africa Directorate at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). Between 2012 and 2014, she was the Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the Department for International Development (DFID). Earlier in her career, she was Head of the DFID Office in Jerusalem from 2009 to 2012 and Private Secretary to the Secretary of State at DFID from 2007 to 2009. She also held roles in the Middle East & North Africa Department at DFID from 2006 to 2007 and served as Deputy Head of DFID Iraq in Baghdad in 2005. In 2004, she worked as a Deputy Programme Manager in Addis Ababa.