SPEAKERS PROFILE

Mr. Ken O’Flaherty was appointed the UK government’s COP26 Regional Ambassador to Asia-Pacific and South Asia in March 2020.
Previously Ken was the Deputy Head of Mission in Rome from August 2015 until October 2019.
A career diplomat he has experience in a number of Foreign Office departments as well as overseas roles in Paris Tokyo and the UK Representation to the European Union. Ken has worked on a wide range of issues from EU cooperation to security counter-terrorism and migration economic and energy issues and the Middle East.
Ken studied Italian and French at Cardiff University and was an ERASMUS student at Parma University.