Theo Rycroft

Biography

Theo Rycroft has been the Director for EU Exit in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London since December 2018, coordinating the department’s engagement and policy work on EU exit and future relationship negotiations. Theo joined the Diplomatic Service in 2009 and was Head of EU Exit Strategy Department in the FCO from 2017 to 2018. Until 2017, he was the Legal Adviser to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street, and Head of International and EU Law at the Attorney General’s Office. He was Counsellor at the UK Mission to the United Nations in Geneva between 2011 and 2014, Assistant Legal Adviser at the FCO from 2009 to 2011, and from 2005 to 2009 he was in the National Security Litigation team in the Treasury Solicitor’s Department. Prior to joining the Civil Service, he practiced as a commercial litigation solicitor at Herbert Smith LLP. He has an LLM in International Law and Jurisprudence from UCL and an MA in Classics from the University of Oxford.