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The Embassy of Lebanon in London |
Contact
Address
21 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W8 4QN
Phone Number
020 7727 6696
The Ambassador
H.E. Farah Berry
Farah Berry is a senior Lebanese career diplomat. Before arriving in London, she served as Lebanon's Ambassador to Qatar and held other responsibilities within the Lebanese diplomatic service. She took up the UK post in 2025 and presented her credentials in 2026, leading Lebanon's bilateral relations and engagement with the Lebanese community in Britain.
History
Bilateral relations between Lebanon and the United Kingdom are long-standing, multi-layered, and strategically vital, historically bound by robust security assistance and shared maritime trade heritage. The embassy commands a magnificent, palatial residence situated on Kensington Palace Gardens—London's most exclusive and heavily secured diplomatic avenue, colloquially known as "Billionaires' Row"—with its active administrative offices operating from the adjacent Palace Gardens Mews.
The Embassy of Lebanon in London serves as a high-stakes operational command post for executing regional security statecraft, securing defense infrastructure assistance, and mobilizing extensive diaspora capital. Under Ambassador Berry’s influential leadership, a primary structural focus of the mission is securing continued UK funding and training for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). The UK stands as the second-largest global donor to the LAF, uniquely constructing land border security towers and providing elite operational training to ensure the state remains the sole legitimate defender of Lebanese sovereignty under UNSCR 1701.
Commercially, the embassy works tirelessly alongside City of London financial syndicates and British-Lebanese corporate boards to channel venture capital into Lebanon's resilient tech, software, and entrepreneurship sectors. Furthermore, the mission prioritizes active diaspora statecraft—fostering deep institutional ties with the 50,000-strong, highly successful British-Lebanese academic and corporate community thriving across the UK—while its busy consular division provides highly digitized registry, civil status, and passport services.
