Kathy Leach

Katherine "Kathy" Jane Leach is a British diplomat, serving as British ambassador to Latvia.

Career to date Leach joined the Foreign Office in 2000, for the last year of her posting, Leach served in the role solo. She was succeeded as ambassador to Armenia in 2015 by Judith Farnworth.

Returning to London, Leach served then as the Head and later (promoted to SMS) Deputy Director of the Policy Unit within the Foreign Office's Strategy Directorate, for 2015–2018. She worked as the Deputy Director responsible for Constitution and Devolution in the Europe Directorate during the final year or so of the Brexit negotiations from 2019 until 2020. Her four year tour ended in 2025 with her being followed as ambassador to Kazakhstan by Sally Axworthy.

Most recently , Leach was appointed as HMA, Riga, replacing Paul Brummell as ambassador to Latvia.