Education
Hughes was educated at Khormaksar (then within the United Kingdom"s Colony of Aden) and Street John"s School, Singapore.
Hughes was educated at Khormaksar (then within the United Kingdom"s Colony of Aden) and Street John"s School, Singapore.
He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1971 and served in Kabul, Warsaw, Tegucigalpa, Berne and New Delhi, and as deputy head of mission in Mexico City and Mumbai, before being appointed ambassador to Guatemala (and non-resident ambassador to El Salvador and Honduras) in 2006. He was High Commissioner to Sierra Leone (and non-resident ambassador to Liberia) 2009-2013. In March 2013 he became ambassador to South Sudan.
He was replaced in May 2015.