Antonia Romeo

Dame Antonia Romeo
DCB
Dame Antonia Romeo DCB
	Romeo in 2020
Cabinet Secretary; Head of the Civil Service;
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 19 February 2026
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Sir Chris Wormald
Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office
	In office; 14 April 2025 – 19 February 2026
Prime Minister	Sir Keir Starmer
Home Secretary	Yvette Cooper; Shabana Mahmood
Preceded by	Sir Matthew Rycroft
Succeeded by	Simon Ridley (acting)
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery; Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice
	In office; 18 January 2021 – 11 April 2025
Monarchs	Elizabeth II; Charles III
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson; Liz Truss; Rishi Sunak; Keir Starmer
Lord Chancellor	Robert Buckland; Dominic Raab; Brandon Lewis; Alex Chalk; Shabana Mahmood
Preceded by	Sir Richard Heaton
Succeeded by	Jo Farrar
Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Trade
	In office; March 2017 – 18 February 2021
Prime Minister	Theresa May; Boris Johnson
Secretary of State	Liam Fox; Liz Truss
Preceded by	Sir Martin Donnelly
Succeeded by	James Bowler
Foreign Office Director-General for Economic and Domestic Affairs; (United States)
	In office; February 2015 – October 2015
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Melanie Dawes
Succeeded by	Jonathan Slater
Her Majesty's Consul-General in New York
	In office; July 2016 – 2017
Prime Minister	David Cameron; Theresa May
Preceded by	Danny Lopez
Succeeded by	Antony Phillipson
Personal details
Born	Antonia Rebecca Caroline Angharad Catherine Rice-Evans; 20 October 1974
Spouse	John Romeo (m. 1999)
Children	3
Education	Brasenose College, Oxford (MA)[Oxon]; Columbia University (MPA); London School of Economics (MSc)

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Dame Antonia Rebecca Caroline Angharad Catherine Romeo DCB (née Rice-Evans; born 20 October 1974) is a British civil servant who has served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service since February 2026. She has previously held permanent secretary roles at the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice and the Department for International Trade and before that, she was the British consul-general in New York for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and concurrently director-general for economic and commercial affairs in the USA.