Education
Nigel Marcus Baker was educated at Dulwich College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he gained a first class degree in history.
Nigel Marcus Baker was educated at Dulwich College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he gained a first class degree in history.
After a brief period as researcher in the Conservative Research Department he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) in 1989. After posts in Prague and Bratislava he took a research sabbatical in Verona 1996-1997 studying Italian and European history. Returning to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, he was Head of the European Defence Section of the Security Policy Department 1998–2000.
He was then assistant Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales 2000-2003, Deputy Head of Mission, Havana, 2003-2006 and Ambassador to Bolivia 2007-2011 before being appointed to the Holy Secretary
Nigel Baker was appointed MVO in 2003 and Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2010.