High Commissioner of Pakistan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Mr. Tipu Usman

Tipu Usman is a career diplomat with over 22 years of experience in bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. Before being appointed as the High Commissioner of Pakistan to the United Kingdom in July 2026, Ambassador Usman was serving as the Chief of State Protocol in Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was responsible for organizing summit-level visits as well as the foreign diplomatic corps’ first point of contact.

Ambassador Usman has also served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Pakistan’s Embassy in Riyadh from 2021 to 2023. He was Counselor in Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, where he worked on security and counterterrorism-related issues for nearly 6 years between 2015 and 2021.

Ambassador Usman was the Foreign Secretary’s Chief of staff in Islamabad from 2014 to 2015. He has served in the Pakistan Embassy in Ankara and the consulate general in Vancouver at the beginning of his career.

Before joining the foreign service, Ambassador Usman was in the Pakistan Army where he served in the Armoured Corps.

Ambassador Usman is married, with two children. He is a keen golfer and sportsman.