Angus Lapsley

Angus Charles William Lapsley is a British civil servant and diplomat who served as the NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning from September 2022 to April 2025. In April 2025 he was appointed to serve as UK Permanent Representative to NATO.

Biography Lapsley attended Warwick School from 1981 to 1988. He studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

In 1999 he joined the FCO, leading the EU Institutions Unit during the Nice Treaty negotiations. He served in Paris between 2001 and 2005 on foreign and security policy issues. From 2006 he was Deputy Balkans Co-ordinator, and from 2006 to 2010 he was Counsellor and Head of the Common and Foreign Security Policy (CFSP), Common Security and Defence Policy and EU Enlargement team at the UK Representation to the EU.

In 2021, Lapsley was reported to be under consideration for the role of British ambassador to NATO, but came under criticism following an investigation that he had lost MoD documents. He was later appointed to a senior role at NATO Headquarters.