| Honorific Prefix: | His Excellency |
| David Quarrey | |
| Office: | Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to NATO |
| Term Start: | 25 April 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Dame Sarah MacIntosh |
| Primeminister: | Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer |
| Office1: | United Kingdom National Security Adviser |
| Termlabel1: | Acting |
| Term Start1: | 17 September 2020 |
| Term End1: | 23 March 2021 |
| Predecessor1: | Sir Mark Sedwill |
| Successor1: | Sir Stephen Lovegrove |
| Primeminister1: | Boris Johnson |
| Office2: | British Ambassador to Israel |
| Term Start2: | 2015 |
| Term End2: | 2019 |
| Predecessor2: | Matthew Gould |
| Successor2: | Neil Wigan |
| Primeminister2: | David Cameron Theresa May |
| Nationality: | British |
| Spouse: | Aldo Oliver Henriquez |
David Quarrey [1] (born 1966) is a British diplomat and the British Ambassador to NATO since 2022. He was formerly acting National Security Adviser, having taken over the role while David Frost continued as the United Kingdom's Chief Negotiator to the European Union during the Brexit negotiations.[2] [3] He was the UK's Ambassador to Israel from 2015 to 2019.[4]
Quarrey, who joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1994,[5] [6] previously directed its Near East and North Africa Department. He has also served as a British diplomat in Harare, in Delhi and at the United Nations in New York. When Tony Blair was British prime minister, he was his private secretary for two years.[7]
Quarrey's term as Ambassador to Israel ended in June 2019. He was replaced by Neil Wigan.[8]
Quarrey was previously Prime Minister Boris Johnson's International Affairs Adviser and Deputy National Security Adviser.[9] In April 2022 he was appointed as the British Ambassador to NATO. [10] [11]
Quarrey was Britain's first openly homosexual Ambassador to Israel.[7] His husband is Aldo Oliver Henriquez.[12]
In 2021, he tested positive for the Indian variant of COVID-19 after returning from a government business trip to India.[9]