Stephen Benedict Hickey is a British diplomat who served as the ambassador to Iraq for 2019–2021.
He had a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford.
[5] He later worked as a diplomat in several Arab League countries including Egypt, Libya and Syria, in which he served as a deputy ambassador in the latter from 2010 to 2011, as he was evacuated during the Syrian civil war.
[1] In July 2020, he received death threats from the Iraqi Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, due to his comments that Iraq was being held back by "armed groups operating outside state control".
[7] He is married to Laura Madelaine Hickey and has three sons.