Sir Colin Richard Budd, KCMG (born 31 August 1945) is a British civil servant and diplomat. He served as Chef de Cabinet to the Vice President of the European Commission from 1993 to 1996; as Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet Office, Head of the Overseas and Defence Secretariat, and Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee from 1996 to 1997; and as the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2001 to 2005.[1][2][3][4]

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  1. ^ "Budd, Sir Colin (Richard)". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.9324. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ^ "Sir Colin Budd KCMG". GOV.UK. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  3. ^ Hume, Lucy, ed. (2017). "BUDD, Sir Colin Richard". People of Today 2017. Debrett's. ISBN 978-1-9997670-3-7.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "British Diplomatic Oral History Programme: Recolections of Sir Colin Budd KCMG" (PDF). Churchill Archives Centre. Churchill College, Cambridge. 7 November 2016. Archived from the original (pdf) on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by British Ambassadors to the Netherlands
2001–2005
Succeeded by
Lyn Parker