Michael Pike

Sir Michael Edmund Pike (4 October 1931 – 1 August 2022) was a British diplomat.

Life and career Pike was born on 4 October 1931. After attending the London School of Economics and Brasenose College, Oxford, Pike worked for The Sunday Express and then The Surrey Comet before joining HM Foreign Service in 1956 as a Third Secretary.

Promotion followed to Second Secretary in 1960 and in 1968 he was appointed First Secretary at the British Embassy in Warsaw; after three years back at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, he was posted as First Secretary to the British Embassy in Washington, DC, in 1973 He left the service that year and subsequently held advisory roles and directorships in the private sector. and was also appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in November 1989.

Pike died on 1 August 2022, at the age of 90.