Sir Peter James Torry GCVO KCMG (born 2 August 1948) is a former British diplomat who was the UK Ambassador to Germany from 2003 until 30 September 2007.
He is a member of the advisory board of Betfair plc and of the Kiel Global Economic Symposium[3] and a policy fellow of the Institute on the Future of Employment in Bonn.
He was a member of the advisory panel of Lloyds Pharmacy until April 2010 and a senior adviser to DAM Capital until December 2009, to Centrica plc until 2012 and to Celesio AG.
At Oxford he won a blue for Rugby in 1968 and 1969, when the University beat the touring Springboks.
He was subsequently selected for the President's of the Rugby Union XV against Wales [3] He was previously Ambassador to Spain[4] from 1998 to 2003 and worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Washington DC, Bonn, Jakarta and Cuba.