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Kate Smith (diplomat)
Katherine Lucy Smith is a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to Greece from January 2017 until July 2021. Smith joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1987, serving in Lusaka and then in London in the Central African Department. She then did a tour in Athens in 1991, and then in the Counter-Proliferation Department focusing on Chemical and Biological Weapons. Later she served at the UN in New York and on security postings in London before becoming Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Tehran from 2005 to 2007. She was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the New Year's Honours for 2008. On return from Tehran, Smith was seconded to Royal Dutch Shell where she served as international adviser from 2008 and then head of UK governmental relations from 2009 until 2012. She returned to the FCO as Director of the Americas. In 2017 she succeeded John Kittmer as Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To Greece
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Greece is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Greece, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Greece. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic. The modern Greek state (then the Kingdom of Greece) was established in 1832 at the London Conference of 1832 and internationally recognised in the same year by the Treaty of Constantinople, in which Greece secured full independence from the Ottoman Empire. Besides the embassy in Athens, the UK government is represented by vice-consulates on the islands of Corfu, Crete and Rhodes, and by an honorary vice consulate on Zakynthos. Heads of Mission Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Greece *1833–1835: Edward DawkinsHaydn, Joseph, ''The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire'' (1851) *1835–1849: Sir Edmund Lyons, Bt *1849–1862: Sir Thomas Wyse Envoy Extraordinary and Minist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |