Simon Cleobury

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Simon Cleobury (@simoncleobury) is Head of Arms Control and Disarmament at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He is a former British Deputy Disarmament Ambassador (2017 – 2023), where he represented the UK at the Conference on Disarmament and other disarmament fora in Geneva. Prior to that he worked in the Security Council Team and then the Peacebuilding Team at the UK Mission to the UN in New York (2012 – 2016). Prior to his diplomatic career, he was a corporate lawyer with global law firm Baker McKenzie. Simon obtained a bachelor’s degree in modern history at University College London and a master’s degree in Historical Research from Oxford University.  He studied law at BPP Law School, London. He is also on LinkedIn.