Mrs. Diedre Mills is a career diplomat with over 25 years’ experience in the Jamaican Foreign Service, where she has worked in several capacities both overseas and in Headquarters in Kingston. Her most recent assignment before assuming Ambassadorial duties in Brussels, was as the Under-Secretary (Acting), for the Bilateral, Regional and Hemispheric Affairs Division, which was complemented by her previous role as Director of the Bilateral Relations Department.

Ambassador Mills also has experience in multilateral issues as a former Senior Director in the Multilateral Affairs Division and as Deputy Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations, New York. Other overseas duties include being Jamaica’s Deputy High Commissioner in London.

The Ambassador is a former lead negotiator for Jamaica and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on the UN High Seas Treaty, as well as on disarmament issues, having served on two separate occasions as a member of the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on conventional arms.

Ambassador Mills is a Chevening Scholar and a successful participant in the United Nations Disarmament Fellowship Programme. She has pursued under-graduate and post-graduate degrees in International Relations and Public Administration at the University of the West Indies (Mona), Oxford University and Columbia Southern University, respectively.

She is married with two children.