Manley joined the
Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1990. Before his posting to Madrid, he served as Director Europe at the FCO (2011–2013), responsible for policy toward the EU. He has been posted to the
UK's Mission to the United Nations in New York City (1993–1998), where he worked on Yugoslavia and UN reform, and has twice been seconded to the European Union: to the
European Commission (2003) and to the
Council of the EU (1998–2002). In March 2020 Manley was appointed Director-General for
COVID-19 at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, leading and coordinating HMG's coronavirus rollout. In June 2023 the World Trade Organisation's Trade and Gender Informal Working Group published its 2023-2024 plan. Manley and
Clara Manuela da Luz Delgado Jesus were new, joining El Salvador's
Ana Patricia Benedetti Zelaya, as co-chairs of the Working Group. They replaced
Athaliah Lesiba Molokomme and Einar Gunnarsson. ==References==