Stuart Gill began his career in the UK Governments Department for Trade and Industry, he was later appointed as Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland and transferred to High Commissioner (senior diplomat of commonwealth government)
Gill began his career in the UK Government's Department for Trade and Industry, before moving to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1994. In 2012, Gill was appointed as Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland. In 2016 he was transferred to be High Commissioner to the Malta. In the Commonwealth of Nations, a high commissioner is the senior diplomat (generally ranking as an ambassador) in charge of the diplomatic mission of one Commonwealth government to another. 
