Marc Holland

His Honour
Marc Holland
Deputy Governor to Gibraltar
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 August 2022
Preceded byColin Wells
Personal details
Born1974[citation needed]
EducationWadham College, University of Oxford
OccupationCivil servant

Marc Holland (born 1974[citation needed]) is a British civil servant and diplomat. From 2014 to 2017, Holland served as the Administrator of Ascension. He was the UK's deputy ambassador to Denmark from 2018 to 2022. He was named Deputy Governor of Gibraltar in 2022.

Career

Holland was educated at Wadham College, Oxford.

Holland joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2002. He served as First Secretary Employment & Social Affairs to the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union and then First Secretary EU to Embassy of the United Kingdom in Berlin. Until 2014 he served as the deputy head of the Future of Europe Department in London. Prior to that Holland had worked Department of Trade and Industry and as a planning and information officer in the education department of the Croydon London Borough Council.

In 2014, Holland was appointed to replace Colin Wells as Administrator of Ascension. He was named Deputy Governor of Gibraltar in 2022.

Personal life

Holland was married,[citation needed] and has five children.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Senior diplomat, Marc Holland, is named new Deputy Governor". Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Marc Holland". GOV.UK. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Wells, Colin (11 October 2013). "Next Administrator for Ascension Announced". Ascension Island Government. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  4. ↑ "Administrator". Ascension Island Government. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Hartdavis, Duff (17 October 2015). "Notes from a very small island: wonderful, eccentric Ascension". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016.