Andrew Pearce (diplomat)


Andrew John Pearce is a British diplomat, who is the current Governor of Montserrat.
Pearce worked in scientific research before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1988. Since 1992, he has held postings in Tel Aviv, Pretoria, Bucharest, Bangkok and Vilnius. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours for his work as head of security for the FCO's Estates and Security Directorate. In 2017, he was made chargé d'affaires of the British embassy in Lithuania.
In December 2017, the FCO announced that Pearce would succeed Elizabeth Carriere as Governor of Montserrat in February 2018.