(Robert) Leigh Turner is a UK Government civil servant who became British Ambassador to Ukraine, resident in Kiev, on 14 June 2008

Leigh Turner's previous job was as Director of Overseas Territories at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was also Commissioner for both the British Indian Ocean Territory and the British Antarctic Territory, equivalent to non-resident governor for both territories.

Born in 1958, he graduated from Cambridge University in 1979 and joined the Civil Service as an administrative trainee the same year. After working in the Departments of Transport and Environment, and the Treasury, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983 and has since had postings in Austria, Russia and Germany.