Alison Flora MacMillan, , is a British diplomat, who served as Deputy

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from 2013 to 2016. For two periods during 2013 and 2015, MacMillan served as governor in an acting capacity.

Career

MacMillan joined the

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(FCO) in February 1982, having previously worked as a translator in Paris. She served in British diplomatic missions in Mexico, the US, Chile and Nicaragua. MacMillan was made a member of the

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in the

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when she was deputy director of protocol and assistant

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. Following the resignation of Vice Admiral Sir Adrian Johns in 2013, MacMillan was sworn in to assume the full powers of the governor. She once more served as interim governor when Johns' successor Lieutenant General Sir James Dutton retired in September 2015.

References

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