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Samantha Job CMG MVO
Samantha Job was the Director for Defence and International Security at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) from March 2019 to August 2022.
Samantha has been a career foreign service officer since 1992. She has worked on geographical issues from South East Asia to the Middle East and thematic issues from war crimes to how to use social media in foreign policy. A theme of her career has been security policy, where she has led policy formulation on counter-proliferation, EU Security and Defence Policy and counter terrorism. Her work has taken her to Thailand and the UK’s Mission to the UN in New York, where she was the counter terrorism and counter proliferation specialist.
From 2013 to 2015, Samantha was the joint Head of the North Africa Department in the FCDO in London. From 2016 to early 2019, Samantha was the Foreign and Security Policy Counsellor at the British Embassy, Washington, engaging with the US government across all aspects of national security policy. Samantha is a strong supporter of diversity and inclusion, and is the National Security Council’s (NSC) gender champion.
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Profile: Samantha Lewthwaite
"I knew her when she was a child," he said. "She was very innocent, lacking confidence, shy and very easy to get on with. She was a follower not a leader."
He said he could not imagine her being involved in the Nairobi attack.
"It takes someone sophisticated to be involved in such an international terrorist organisation," he added.
She became friendly with a local Muslim family who helped her to convert to Islam when she was a teenager.
At the Grange School in Aylesbury, the new Muslim convert stood out, according to Novid Shaid who taught there.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The Report last year, he said: "She seemed to be really proud wearing the hijab, there was a bubbly feeling around her."
After a few years, "we noticed her wearing the full galabiya (full-length robe) which some converts tend to do when they become more serious," he said.
Ms Lewthwaite's interest in religion developed further and she enrolled in a degree course in politics and the study of religions in 2002 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. However, she left the course after two months.
She met Jamaican-born Muslim convert Lindsay via an Islamic internet chatroom the same year and the coup