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Antonia Romeo (born 20 October 1974) is a British civil servant. She is currently the British Consul-General in New York at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Director-General for Economic and Commercial Affairs in the USA for UK Trade & Investment.
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Early life
Romeo was educated at North London Collegiate School and then Westminster School. From there she went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where she graduated with an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1996.
Career
From Oxford, Romeo joined Oliver Wyman in 1996, where she worked for three years. Romeo then took an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, and in 2000 joined Her Majesty's Civil Service into the Lord Chancellor's Department as a professional economist. In 2004, Romeo became the head of the information rights division within the new Department for Constitutional Affairs, in charge of freedom of information and related government policies.
In 2006, Romeo became Principal Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor — initially The Lord Falconer, then from 2007 Jack Straw. In 2008, Romeo transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as the Director of Whitehall Liaison Department, responsible with the FCO's relations with intelligence agencies and other government departments.
Following the United Kingdom general election, 2010 and the subsequent formation of the First Cameron ministry, Romeo transferred to the Cabinet Office as the Executive Director in the new Efficiency and Reform Group responsible for Government Reform, under Francis Maude. After 18 months, Romeo moved back to her original department, now called the Ministry of Justice, as Director-General for Transforming Justice. Two years later, in 2013, Romeo took over from Helen Edwards, combining her brief of "Justice Policy" and as Director-General for Criminal Justice. After a further two years, she left in 2015, and was succeeded by Indra Morris.
In 2015, Romeo served briefly as the British government's "Special Envoy to the U.S. technology companies", and then as Director-General of the Economic and Domestic Secretariat in the Cabinet Office, replacing Melanie Dawes. After eight months, Romeo was replaced by Jonathan Slater. Romeo then undertook the Advanced Management Programme at Columbia University.
In July 2016, Romeo was appointed Her Majesty’s Consul General in New York, replacing Danny Lopez. The rôle combines consular work with business work under the auspices of UK Trade & Investment; Romeo's position was described there as a new one of "Director-General, Economic and Commercial Affairs USA", whereas Lopez's was "Director-General, USA".