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Michael Hastings Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, GCMG is a former senior civil servant in the United Kingdom. In 2005, Sir Michael Jay served as the Prime Minister's Personal Representative (Sherpa) to prepare the DDE_LINK2G8 Summit at Gleneagles in addition to his PUS duties. In July 2001 he was appointed Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office and thus Head of the Diplomatic Service, a post he took up on 14 January 2002. Upon his retirement from the Foreign Office on 27 July 2006, he was recommended for a life peerage, and this was gazetted as Baron Jay of Ewelme, of Ewelme in the County of Oxfordshire, on 18 September 2006.