Sir Simon Nicholas Peter Hemans CMG (1992), CVO (1983) (born 19 September 1940) is a former British diplomat.
He returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1968.
[1] In 1969, he served as the deputy to the High Commissioner in Anguilla, and in 1982 that in Nairobi, Kenya.
From 1989 to 1992, he led the Soviet Union desk at the FCO.
At the end of his career, he served as Ambassador in Kyiv, Ukraine from 1992 to 1995,[2][3] and from 1995 bis 1997 as High Commissioner in Nairobi, Kenya.