Antonia Romeo
Dame Antonia Rebecca Caroline Angharad Catherine Romeo (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. == Early life and education == Antonia Rice-Evans was born on 20 October 1974 in London, England, to Peter Rice-Evans and his wife, Catherine.