Janet Douglas

Janet Elizabeth Douglas CMG (born 1960) is a retired British diplomat who was the British High Commissioner to Barbados and the East Caribbean from 2017 to 2020.

Consular career Douglas joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1985 and was first made Desk Officer for Greece. In 1986, she was moved to the Directorate General of the European Commission. From 1987 to 1988, Douglas underwent Turkish training before being posted to the embassy in Ankara.

In 1991, she was made the Head of the Humanitarian Affairs Section and later joined the Emergency Aid Policy and Emergency Preparedness unit of the FCO. In 1996, Douglas was made the First Secretary of the European Union office in Stockholm and in 2000, the Deputy Department head of the Southern Africa Directorate at the FCO.

Personal life She was a pupil at Cheltenham Ladies College and later studied Archaeology and Anthropology at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Douglas is married to Tony Furlong and has two step children. She can speak French, Swedish and Turkish.