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Kate Ewart-Biggs OBE (born November 1967) is Deputy Chief Executive of the

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Personal life

Her father was

Christopher Ewart-Biggs Christopher Thomas Ewart Ewart-Biggs, (5 August 1921 – 21 July 1976) was the British Ambassador to Ireland, an author and senior Foreign Office liaison officer with MI6. He was killed in 1976 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in ...

a British diplomat who was killed by the

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in Dublin in 1976. Her mother was

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. She studied social anthropology at

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. She appeared on

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on 17 July 2022. She is married with a daughter.

Career with British Council

Kate joined the British Council after working help street children around the world in places such as Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia. She has been posted by the Council to Uganda, Tanzania, Central and Eastern Europe and in Egypt. She was Regional Head for the Middle East and North Africa. Before she was Deputy Chief Executive, she was Director Global Network and managed relationships with the British Government departments.

References

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