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The King's Birthday Honours 2026 Overseas and International List: Order of the British Empire
Updated 12 June 2026
| O°ù»å±ð°ù | Award | Name | Job title | Short citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Order of the British Empire (Commander) | CBE | Franz MANDERSON MBE | Deputy Governor, Cayman Islands. | For services to the Cayman Islands Civil Service and to the wider community in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Commander) | CBE | Lance UGGLA | Founder, IHS Markit. | For services to Business and to Philanthropy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Carolyn AINSWORTH | Head of Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Dr Phillip AMBLER | Co-Founder of Border Eye Program Thailand and Karenaid UK. | For services to Eye Health in Myanmar. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Dr Peter BAXTER | former Consultation Physician in Public Health. | For services to Public Health and to Protecting Communities from Volcanic Hazards. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Stuart CAINE | Head of Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Giles DICKSON | Chief Executive Officer, WindEurope. | For services to Renewable Energy and UK/EU Energy Cooperation. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Dr Matthew DRYDEN | Consultant in Infection – UK Overseas Territories Programme, UK Health Security Agency. | For services to Health, particularly in the UK Overseas Territories. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Christopher HAMMOND | Head of Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | °Õ´Ç³¾Ìý±á·¡¸é°¿±· | Senior Submarine Rescue Vehicle Pilot, JFD. | For services to UK and Global Submarine Rescue Operations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Fern HORINE | HM Ambassador, British Embassy Chisinau, Moldova. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | ±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌý¸é´Ç²ÔÂá´Ç²ÔÌý±·´¡³Ò | Stanford University and Founder, R42 Group. | For services to Entrepreneurship and to Artificial Intelligence. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | ¶Ù°ùÌý°Õ²¹°ù¾±±çÌý°¿µþ´¡±õ¶Ù·¡ | Chair, The British Education Group. | For services to British Education Overseas and to UK/Morocco Relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Lucy PINCHES | Project Manager, Mine Action Review. | For services to Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Professor Mark POZNANSKY | Director Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Physician, Infectious Diseases Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, United States of America. | For services to UK/US Biomedical Research and Collaboration.  |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Alexander PROFUMO | Head of Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Sohail RAHMAN | lately Anchor, Al Jazeera News. | For services to Journalism and to Charitable Fundraising. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | ´¡³¾¾±°ùÌý¸é´¡²Ñ´Ü´¡±· | British Council Regional Director, Middle East/North Africa. | For services to UK Cultural Relations Overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Andrew SCOTT | Sculptor. | For services to Sculpture and the Arts. |
| Order of the British Empire (Officer) | OBE | Andrew WAGGETT | Head of Department, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | ±õ´Ú²âÌý´¡³Òµþ°¿°¿³¢´¡ | Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Tallinn, Estonia | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | ´¡±ô²¹²ÔÌýµþ·¡³¢³¢ | Founder, The Vanessa Grant Girls School in Kenya | For services to Girls’ Education in Kenya. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Ryan CHAMBERLAIN | lately Technical Services Officer, British Embassy Tehran, Iran | For services to the British Embassy Tehran, Iran. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Elizabeth CHRISTOPHERÂ JP | Lawyer | For services to Law and Justice in Bermuda. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Rufus DRABBLE | HM Consul General Miami, Florida, United States of America | For services to British Foreign Policy, to Trade and to British Nationals Overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Scott DUNNING | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Elizabeth EATON | Trustee, Kenya Children Centres (UK) | For services to Child Welfare and Education in Kenya and to UK/Kenya Relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Dr Wilfred EATON | Chairman of Trustees, Kenya Children Centres (UK) | For services to Child Welfare and Education in Kenya and to UK/Kenya Relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Christopher GAZE | Founder and Artistic Director, Bard on the Beach, Vancouver, Canada | For services to British Arts and Culture in Canada. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | ²Ñ²¹°ù³Ù¾±²ÔÌý³Ò±õ³¢µþ·¡¸é°Õ | lately Director British Council, Austria, Switzerland and Nordics | For services to British Cultural Relations in Europe. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Steve GOVE | Founder and Director, Prague Fringe Festival, Czech Republic | For services to UK/Czech Republic Cultural Relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Jane GRIMSHAW | Founder and Chair of Mango Tree Goa | For services to the Education of Disadvantaged Children in India. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Jamie HALL | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Michael HAMBLIN | ¶Ù¾±°ù±ð³¦³Ù´Ç°ù,Ìý°Õ³ó±ðÌý²Ñ·É±ð³ú¾±Ìý¹ó´Ç³Ü²Ô»å²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô | For services to Education in Kenya. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Alan HAYWARD | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to National Security. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Claire HEALY | Head, Afghanistan Relocations Islamabad Team, British High Commission Islamabad, Pakistan | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Martha HOLMAN | ¹ó´Ç³Ü²Ô»å±ð°ù,Ìý³¢´Ç±¹±ð´Ü¾±³¾²ú²¹²ú·É±ð | For services to Community Development in Zimbabwe and UK/Zimbabwe Relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Paul HUGHES | Joint Deputy Head, Gibraltar Negotiations Taskforce, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Fiona JOHNSTON | Volunteer and Charity Worker, Juliet Johnston School, Ghana | For services to Education and Charity in Ghana and to UK/Ghana Relations. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Nicola MILLINGTON | Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Hector MONTADO | Chief Technical Officer, Government of Gibraltar | For services to His Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Tara NIELSEN | Founder and Director of Acts of Random Kindness (ARK) | For services to Charity and Community Development in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | James NORMINGTON | Founder, British and Commonwealth Remembrance Project | For services to the Remembrance of British and Commonwealth War Dead in the United States of America. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Lisa SAMUELSEN | Director, Eden Myanmar | For services to Victims of Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Jane SIDEBOTTOM | lately Deputy Director, Gibraltar Negotiations Taskforce, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | ·¡±ô¾±³ú²¹²ú±ð³Ù³óÌý³§³¢±õ±·³Ò·¡¸é | Chair of Trustees, Medical Action Myanmar UK and Volunteer, Medical Action Myanmar | For services to Healthcare in Myanmar. |
| Order of the British Empire (Member) | MBE | Hannah WHITTOCK | lately Joint Deputy Head, Gibraltar Negotiations Taskforce, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Daniel CALVERT | lately Executive Chef, Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi | For services to the Culinary Arts in Japan and to UK/Japan Culinary Relations. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | ³¢¾±´Ç²Ô±ð±ôÌý·¡Ìý°ä´¡±·±· | former Director, Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services Team and Manager of the Emergency Housing Shelter, Bermuda | For services to Emergency Disaster Relief and Homelessness in Bermuda. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Ralph CANTRELL | Eastern Cyprus Sub Aqua Club BSAC Special Branch 0120 Diving Officer | For services to the British Forces Cyprus Community and to Diving Safety in Cyprus. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Barbara CONNELL | Founder and Chair, Kotu Trust | For services to Education and Young People in The Gambia. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Sapphire DALTON | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Clare DOWNEY | Founder, the Flying Pig Project, Willink School, Berkshire | For services to Children and Education in Moldova. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Matthew ELLIS | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Charles ENTWISLE | President, Yachting Gives Back | For services to Charity and Vulnerable People in Mallorca. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | °ä²¹³Ù³ó±ð°ù¾±²Ô±ðÌý³Ò¸é°¿³Õ·¡ | ¹ó´Ç³Ü²Ô»å±ð°ù,Ìý°´Ç³Ù³ÜÌý°Õ°ù³Ü²õ³Ù | For services to Education and Young People in The Gambia. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | ´¡±ô¾±²õ´Ç²ÔÌý±á±õ°ä°²Ñ´¡±· | Founder and Trustee, Transform Salone | For services to the community in Sierra Leone. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | James HILL | Founder and Coordinator, Katangi Orphans Project | For services to Disadvantaged Children in Katangi, Kenya. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Mark JEWISS | Desk Officer, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | For services to British Foreign Policy. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Fiona MAXTON | Consular Regional Operations Manager, British Embassy Moscow, Russia | For services to British Foreign Policy and to British Nationals Overseas. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | ³Ò±ô±ð²Ô»å²¹Ìý²Ñ³¦°Õ´¡³Ò³Ò´¡¸é°Õ | Senior Manager, Education Programmes, Cayman Islands | For services to Education in the Cayman Islands. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | ¸é²¹²â³¾´Ç²Ô»åÌý±Ê¸é±õ°Õ°ä±á´¡¸é¶Ù | Owner, Alpine Lifestyle Partners and former Welsh Masters Ski Champion | For services to Sport, to Tourism and to UK/Switzerland Relations. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Gayl RUSSELL | Founder and Director, Community Kitchen, Brussels, Belgium | For services to Refugees and Vulnerable People in Brussels. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | Keri SCOTT | Director of Education, Government of Gibraltar | For services to Education in Gibraltar. |
| Order of the British Empire | BEM | ´Ü´ÇëÌý°Õ°¿°Â±·³§³¢·¡³Û | Assistant Administrator, the British Indian Ocean Territory | For services to British Foreign Policy. |