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Francois Gordon
Jean Francois Gordon (born 16 April 1953) was the British Ambassador to Algeria from 1996 to 1999, Ambassador to the Ivory Coast from 2001 to 2004 and High Commissioner to Uganda from 2005 to 2008. Foreign Office Career Gordon joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1979 and worked in the European Commission Department. In 1981 he was posted to Angola as the First Secretary for Luanda. He later served as First Secretary for the British Delegation to the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva from 1983 to 1988, before becoming the Head of Finance for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in the United Nations from 1988 to 1989, First Secretary to Nairobi from 1990 to 1992 and Head of Crime, Drugs and Terrorism Department for the FCO. Upon retiring from the Foreign Office in 2009 he became the European Strategy Advisor for the Kent Police. For his ambassador work he was appointed CMG in 1999, and CVO in 2007 when Queen Elizabeth II visited Uganda for a Commonwealth Heads of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To Algeria
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Algeria is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Algiers. Ambassadors *1962–1964: Trefor Evans *1964–1965: Sir Thomas Bromley *1965–1968: ''No representation'' *1968–1971: Martin Le Quesne *1971–1973: Ronnald Burroughs *1974–1977: John Robinson *1977–1981: Richard Faber *1981–1984: Benjamin Strachan *1984–1987: Sir Alan Munro *1987–1989: Patrick Eyers *1990–1994: Christopher Battiscombe *1994–1995: Christopher Crabbie *1995–1996: Peter Marshall *1996–1999: Francois Gordon *1999–2001: William Sinton *2001–2002: Richard Edis *2002–2004: Graham Hand *2004–2005: Brian Edward Stewart *2005–2007: Andrew Tesoriere *2007–2010: Andrew Henderson *2010–2014: Martyn Roper *2014–2017: Andrew Noble *2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the Two-party system, two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It is the current Government of the United Kingdom, governing party, having won the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. It has been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010. The party is on the Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological #Party factions, factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. The party currently has 356 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament, 264 members of the House of Lords, 9 members of the London Assembly, 31 members of the Scottish Parliament, 16 members of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament, 2 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To Ivory Coast
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambassador has the highest diplomatic rank. Countries may choose to maintain diplomatic relations at a lower level by appointing a chargé d'affa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To Algeria
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambassador has the highest diplomatic rank. Countries may choose to maintain diplomatic relations at a lower level by appointing a chargé d'affa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aix-Marseille University Alumni
Aix-Marseille University (AMU; french: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as ''Université d'Aix-Marseille'') is a public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence, petitioned the Pisan Antipope Alexander V to establish the University of Provence, making it one of the oldest university-level institutions in France. The institution came into its current form following a reunification of the University of Provence, the University of the Mediterranean and Paul Cézanne University. The reunification became effective on 1 January 2012, resulting in the creation of the largest university in the French-speaking world, with about 80,000 students. AMU has the largest budget of any academic institution in the Francophone world, standing at €750 million. It is consistently ranked among the top 200 universities in the world and is ranked within the top 4 universities in France acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of The Queen's College, Oxford
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women. The word is Latin and means "one who is being (or has been) nourished". The term is not synonymous with "graduate"; one can be an alumnus without graduating ( Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example). The term is sometimes used to refer to a former employee or member of an organization, contributor, or inmate. Etymology The Latin noun ''alumnus'' means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from PIE ''*h₂el-'' (grow, nourish), and it is a variant of the Latin verb ''alere'' "to nourish".Merriam-Webster: alumnus .. Separate, but from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Shearman
Martin James Shearman (born 1965) is a British diplomat, who has served as the British Ambassador to Belgium since June 2019. Early life Martin James Shearman was born in 1965. Shearman attended The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells and Trinity College, Oxford. Career Before his assignment in Belgium, Shearman was posted in New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ... where he was responsible for the UK's engagement with the United Nations on development, humanitarian and human rights issues with the rank of Ambassador. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under thOpen Government Licence v3.0 © Crown copyright. He has also served as British High Commissioner to Uganda and Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria. Personal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Wood
Adam Kenneth Compton Wood (born 13 March 1955) is a retired British diplomat, and was the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 2011 to 2016. Life and career Wood was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford in 1977. Wood's later career consisted of major diplomatic roles in Africa, as the British High Commissioner to Uganda from 2002 to 2005, then High Commissioner to Kenya from 2005 to 2008. Prior to his retirement from the diplomatic service in 2010, he was Africa Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, managing Britain's embassies in Africa. He was announced as Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man The Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man ( gv, Fo-chiannoort Vannin or ''Lhiass-chiannoort Vannin'') is the Lord of Mann's official personal representative in the Isle of Man. He has the power to grant royal assent and is styled "His Excellen ... in November 2010, and was sworn in on 7 April 2011. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Coates (diplomat)
David Coates (born 13 November 1947) is a retired British diplomat, scholar, former Ambassador to Ivory Coast and Director General of the British Trade & Cultural Office (BTCO) in Taipei. Coates was educated at the History Department, University of Bristol, then he studied Mandarin at the Stanford Center of National Taiwan University from 1972 to 1973, and taught in Taiwanese cram schools. After joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Coates worked at the British Embassy Beijing as First Secretary (Commercial), from 1989 to 1992 he was assigned to Beijing again, as Counsellor (Political) and Deputy Chief of Mission. After returning to London, he served as the Head of Joint Assistance Unit (Central and Eastern Europe) from 1993 to 1995. and was promoted to the Head of Far East and Pacific Department (1995–98). In 1999, he went to Taipei to take the post of Director General BTCO in succession of Alan Stanley Collins, who was appointed as British Ambassador to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To The Ivory Coast
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Côte d'Ivoire is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Ivory Coast, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Abidjan. The British embassy in Abidjan was closed in 2005 because of the worsening security situation and the mission to Ivory Coast was temporarily operated out of the embassy in neighbouring Ghana. The embassy in Abidjan was reopened in May 2012. List of heads of mission Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary *1960–1964: Thomas Ravensdale (also to Dahomey, Niger and Upper Volta) *1964–1967: Thomas Shaw (also to Niger and Upper Volta, and to Dahomey 1964–65) *1967–1970: Dudley Cheke (also to Niger and Upper Volta) *1970–1972: Peter Murray (also to Niger and Upper Volta) *1972–1975: Paul Holmer (also to Niger and Upper Volta) *1975–1978: Joe Wright (also to Niger and Upper Volta) *1978–1983: Michael Daly (also to Niger and Upper Volta) *1983–1987: John Willson (also to Burk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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