Arigato and Sayonara Osaka-Kansai Expo!
The UK Pavilion succeeded at Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai, attracting over a million visitors and strengthening UK-Japan ties.
Since joining the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in 1986 (then called the Foreign & Commonwealth Office), Carolyn Davidson has served in Guatemala, Honduras, Zambia, Japan, Germany, Slovakia, Thailand and Brussels. She was also joint British High Commissioner to Zambia, with her husband Tom Carter from 2008 until 2012, previously having led on international energy issues at the FCDO. In August 2021, she was appointed as the British consul general to Osaka, Japan.