John Dennis

John David Dennis Jr. (born 6 August 1959) is a British diplomat who was the British Ambassador to Angola from 2014 to 2018 and the Director of Green Corridors and Ivory Trade at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference 2018. He was the British Representative to Taiwan, heading British Office Taipei, from 2020 to 2025.

Consular career Dennis joined the FCO in 1981 as a Desk Officer for Tanzania and Uganda. In 1982, he started a language course to become proficient at Mandarin and in 1985, was posted to the Embassy of the United Kingdom, Beijing as second secretary.

In 1987 Dennis was recalled to the FCO to be head of the Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei section. He stayed in this post until 1989 when he was re-assigned to be the head of the Recruitment Section. In 1992 Dennis was posted abroad again to Kuala Lumpur to be the head of the Political Section of the High Commission there. In 1996 he took a secondment and became the Special Adviser to the chairman of Standard Chartered Bank for two years. He left the post in February 2018, being replaced by Jessica Hand. After being recalled, Dennis worked on the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference in October 2018 in London. In January 2025, he was awarded Taiwan's Friendship Medal of Diplomacy.

Personal life Dennis is married and has two sons.