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List Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To Yemen
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Republic of Yemen is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Yemen, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Sana'a. Operations at the British Embassy in Sana'a were temporarily suspended on 11 February 2015 due to the deteriorating security situation which preceded the Yemeni Civil War. The ambassador and his team are currently based in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Ambassadors Ambassadors to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) *1970–1972: Arthur Kellas *1972–1975: Granville Ramage *1975–1983: ''No ambassador'' various Chargé d'Affaires: * 1979–1980: Colin Dyer *1983–1985: Peter Keegan Williams *1986–1989: Arthur Marshall *1989–1990: Douglas Gordon Ambassadors to the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) *1971–1973: Michael Edes *1973–1976: Derrick Carden *1977–1978: Benjamin Strachan *1979–1984: Julian Walker *1984–1987: David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Marshall (diplomat)
Mark Anthony Marshall (born 5 May 1987) is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Carshalton Athletic. Marshall began his career with non-League sides Carshalton Athletic, Grays Athletic and Eastleigh, before winning a move into the English Football League with Swindon Town in August 2008. He was loaned out to Hereford United in September 2009, before he joined Barnet in July 2010. He was a first team regular for the club before he received a two-year ban from football after he was found to have the stimulant Methylhexanamine in his system following a routine drug test on Boxing Day 2011. He returned to the game with Coventry City in February 2014, and signed with Port Vale in July 2014. A year later he switched clubs to Bradford City, and went on to be named the club's Player of the Season for the 2016–17 campaign. He joined Charlton Athletic in June 2017 and after two seasons with the club he moved on to Gillingham in July 2019. He signed with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom
The list below includes lists of ambassadors and high commissioners of the United Kingdom (who fulfil the function of ambassadors in fellow countries of the Commonwealth of Nations). This article includes, in separate sections, ambassadors of the former Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801) and Kingdom of England (10th century–1707). Ambassadors and High Commissioners of the United Kingdom *Afghanistan *Albania *Algeria *Angola *Argentina *Armenia *Australia *Austria *Azerbaijan *Bahamas *Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ... *List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Bangladesh, Bangladesh *List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Barbados, Barbados *List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Belarus, Belarus *List of ambassadors of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Oppenheim
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Aron
Michael Douglas Aron (born 22 March 1959) is a British diplomat who has been Ambassador to Kuwait, Iraq, Libya and Sudan, and Yemen. Career Aron was educated at Exeter School, Leeds University and the Polytechnic of Central London. He taught English in Sudan before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1984. He has served at New York, Brasilia and Brussels. He was Ambassador to Kuwait 2008–09, Head of the Middle East Department at the FCO 2010–11, Ambassador to Iraq 2011–12, acting Head of Mission at Tripoli September 2012 to January 2013, and Ambassador to Libya from January 2013 until June 2015. After the outbreak of the Libyan Civil War in 2014, Aron supervised the evacuation of British citizens from Tripoli on the Royal Navy survey ship HMS ''Enterprise''. He and his remaining staff then closed the embassy and left Libya to set up a temporary office in Tunis. In April 2015, Aron was appointed Ambassador to the Republic of Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Shercliff
Simon Shercliff (born 23 December 1972) is a British diplomat, and Ambassador to Iran. Education and career Shercliff was educated at Wells Cathedral School. He graduated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1995, with a degree in Earth Sciences. Shercliff took up his first posting with the (then) Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2000, as a political officer in the Embassy in Tehran, Iran, in 2000. He was subsequently deployed to Baghdad, Iraq as Private Secretary to Jeremy Greenstock, who was the UK's Special Representative to Iraq. Later postings took him to Washington, D.C., Kabul, Abuja and then to Yemen, as British Ambassador. He returned to London as Director of National Security for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in February 2018. In August 2021, he became the British Ambassador to Iran. Honours In December 2004, Shercliff was awarded an OBE in the Civilian Honours list "in recognition of services to the reconstruction of Iraq and towards its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Fitton-Brown
Edmund Walter Fitton-Brown (born 5 October 1962) is a British diplomat who is currently a Monitoring Team Coordinator with the United Nations. From February 2015 to February 2017, he served as List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Yemen, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Yemen. Fitton-Brown read history at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; after graduating, he joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1984. Between 1991 and 2003, he served as First Secretary of State, First Secretary before becoming Counsellor of State, Counsellor in Cairo, Rome and others. Since 2018, he has acted as an expert supporting United Nations Security Council, UN Security Council Committees responsible for sanctions against Al Qaeda, ISIL/Daesh and the Taliban. References 1962 births Living people Members of HM Diplomatic Service Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Yemen Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 20th-century British diplomats {{UK-diplomat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Marriott
Jane Marriott (born 1976 in Doncaster, England) is a British diplomat. Marriott was the Director of the Joint International Counter-Terrorism Unit. She is currently now appointed as British High commissioner to Pakistan in 2023.She was appointed the British High Commissioner to Kenya, and began her consular duties in the Summer of 2019. Marriott graduated from Durham University in 1997 with a first-class degree in History, and went on to complete an MPhil in International Relations at Darwin College, Cambridge. Career From 2013 to 2015 she was List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Yemen, British Ambassador to Yemen. Marriott formerly served as an adviser to Richard Holbrooke during his time as a United States Special Envoy, Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ms Mariott was appointed the British High Commissioner to Kenya, an announcement made on 13 June 2019 and took up the role from Mr. Nic Hailey. She was the first female UK High Commissioner to Kenya. She com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Hopton
Nicholas Dunster Hopton (born 8 October 1965) is a British diplomat who was the head of the UK embassy in Libya. Hopton was educated at St Peter's School, York and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1989 and served in Paris, Rome and Rabat. He worked on the national security team at the Cabinet Office and was Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Europe. He assumed his first ambassadorial position as British Ambassador to Yemen, Ambassador to Yemen from 2012 to 2013, before serving as List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Qatar, Ambassador to Qatar between 2013 and 2015. In December 2015 he was appointed British chargé d'affaires in Iran. Following the improvement in Iran–United Kingdom relations, relations between the United Kingdom and Iran, Hopton was made List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Iran, Ambassador to Iran in September 2016 – the first British ambassador to the country since 2011. He was appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Wilks
Jonathan Paul (Jon) Wilks (born 30 September 1967) is a British diplomat who was the Ambassador to Iraq from 2017 to 2019, Ambassador to Oman from 2014 to 2017 and Ambassador to Yemen from 2010 to 2011. Career Wilks was born at Callow End, Worcestershire, and educated at The Chase School, Malvern, and Durham University where he graduated in 1989 with a BSc degree in natural sciences. He was also President of the Durham Union. After graduation he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). After Arabic language training in London and Cairo 1991–93 he was posted to Khartoum 1993–96 and Riyadh 1996–99. He then returned to Durham University for a MA in Middle East Politics (2000), then went to St Antony's College, Oxford for a MPhil in International Relations (2002). After six months' secondment at the Cabinet Office, he was deputy head of the team that reopened the British mission in Baghdad after the Iraq War, from April to November 2003. He was deputy head of the Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Torlot
Timothy Achille Torlot (born 17 September 1957) is a British diplomat serving as the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan since August 2019. Education He attended Worcester College, Oxford and gained a BA (Hons) degree in modern languages. Diplomatic career Tim Torlot joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1981. Following Arabic language training at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, he was posted as Third Secretary to Muscat in 1984 and to Wellington as Second Secretary in 1987. Returning to the FCO in 1992, he served in Personnel Management Department until 1995 and in South East Asian Department until 1997. He was posted to Santiago from 1997 to 2001. He spent a year in the FCO's Counter Terrorism Department before being appointed Director, Advanced Technologies, UK Trade & Investment. From 2005 to 2006, he was Deputy Head of Mission in Baghdad. Two short assignments at the FCO followed before he was appointed Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen in July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gifford
Michael John Gifford (born 2 April 1961) is a British diplomat who has been the List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Kazakhstan, United Kingdom's Ambassador to Kazakhstan since January 2018. Career Gifford joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1981. From 2004 until 2007 he served as the List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Yemen, British Ambassador to Yemen. He was then the Deputy Head of Mission in Cairo. He became the List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to North Korea, Ambassador to North Korea in October 2012. He left that appointment in December 2015 and was succeeded by Alastair Morgan. After full-time Russian language training he was appointed to be the List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Kazakhstan, Ambassador to Kazakhstan from early 2018. He will leave this post in late summer 2021 and retire from the Diplomatic Service. Gifford was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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