Dame Madelaine Glynne Dervel Evans, DBE, CMG (born 23 August 1944) is a retired British diplomat and security adviser.

Career

Evans graduated from the

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with a

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(BA) degree in 1966 and completed a

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(PhD) at

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in 1971 with a thesis entitled "The Landed Aristocracy in Peru, 1600–1680". She joined the

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in 1971 as a Second Secretary and was posted to

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the following year; promotion to First Secretary followed in 1975. In 1977, she returned to the FCO as Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. She was posted in

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, firstly to the UN Security Security Council Secretariat in 1978 and then as First Secretary to UK Mission to the United Nations (1979–82). She was subsequently a Counsellor at the Foreign Office and then, from 1987 to 1990, Counsellor to the Mission in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. From 1990 to 1996, she was Head of the UN Department at the Foreign Office, and was then Ambassador to

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

(1997–2000) and

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(2001–04). After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, she became a Senior Adviser to the Olive Group Ltd in 2006 and Restrata Ltd in 2013. A Companion of the

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since 1992, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the

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in 2000."Evans, Dame (Madelaine) Glynne (Dervel)"
''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 3 January 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Glynne 1944 births Living people Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Chile Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Portugal Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire