Sir Edward Heywood Peck GCMG (5 October 1915 – 24 July 2009) was a British diplomat, climber and author.
He then joined the Consular Service of the Foreign Office (FO)[2] and was posted to Barcelona 1938–39, including the final months of the Spanish Civil War.
He was part of the British delegation to a United Nations Special Commission on the Balkans in 1947, which caused the Soviet Union to reject his proposed posting to Moscow.
He was on the staff of the regional Commissioner-General for South-East Asia 1959–60, an Assistant Under-Secretary at the FO 1961–66, High Commissioner to Kenya 1966–68, deputy to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee 1968–70, and Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council (the governing body of NATO) 1970–75.
He was also on the council of the National Trust for Scotland 1982–87 and a visiting fellow in defence studies 1976–1985 at Aberdeen University, which gave him an honorary doctorate in 1997.