# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-gass
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:06:26.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-gass"
name: "Simon Gass"
slug: "simon-gass"
description: "Sir Simon Lawrance Gass is a British civil servant. He chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee from 2019 to 2023 and served as the British Prime Minister's representative on Afghanistan from 2021 to 2022 concurrently. Between 2018 and 2019, he was the Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies. During his diplomatic career, he served as British ambassador to Greece and to Iran. In May 2023, it was announced he was stepping down as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and succeeded by Madeleine Alessandri."
tagline: "British diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_Gass.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-11-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.64
  momentum:             10.56
  historical:           6.554393333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Simon Gass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "سيمون جاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "سيمون جاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Gass"
    title: "Simon Gass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Gass"
    title: "Simon Gass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%86_%DA%AF%D8%B3"
    title: "سایمن گس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Гасс, Саймон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2287503"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump