Sir Roger Bone was appointed President of Boeing UK in September 2005. He is responsible for coordinating all Boeing business activities enterprise-wide in Britain from the Boeing UK offices in central London.

Sir Roger, 61, had a 40-year career in the British Diplomatic Service. Prior to his appointment at Boeing, Sir Roger was HM Ambassador to Brazil from 1999 to 2004 and to Sweden from 1995 to 1999. He was an Assistant Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London from 1991 to 1995. Sir Roger has extensive experience negotiating on behalf of industrial interests in his overseas assignments with particular experience in the aerospace sector.

Sir Roger was Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary Francis Pym - and then Sir Geoffrey Howe - between 1982 and 1984, and then Political Counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington from 1985 to 1989. Earlier in his career he was a First Secretary on the UK Representation to the European Communities in Brussels, and First Secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow.  

Sir Roger is a member of the Council of the Anglo-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, and Chairman of the Anglo Latin American Foundation which raises money for disadvantaged children in South America.