Tim Hitchens

Tim Hitchens, LVO, was Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, 1999-2002.

He was seconded from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to which he returned to become Head of the Africa Department (Equatorial). He had been First Secretary Political and Information, British High Commission, Islamabad and speechwriter for Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.

Hitchens was born in 1962, and educated at the University of Cambridge, where he read English. After joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office he studied Japanese, and then became Trade Secretary in Tokyo.

In autumn 2008 he returned to London as Director European Political Affairs.

Tim now resides in London with his wife Sara, son Matthew and pet dog Gemma.