Michael Harry Tatham (born 2 July 1965) is a

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, serving since January 2018 as the deputy

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. Following the resignation of

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in July 2019, he became

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ad interim. Tatham is the son of

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, who also served in the diplomatic service. He joined the FCO in 1987, and in his early career served in Prague and Sofia as well as in ministerial private office, first for

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from 1995 to 1996, and then from 1999 for the Prime Minister,

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, under the

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, first

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and then

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, until 2002. Tatham went back in Prague as deputy head of mission for 2002–2005, as Head of the FCO's Western Balkans group, and then as British ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2008 until 2011. After four years as political counsellor at UKMIS in New York, Tatham was the

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's Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia from 2015 to 2017. Tatham was appointed

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(CMG) in the

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for services to British foreign policy.

References

External links

Tatham's page on gov.uk
Living people 1965 births British diplomats Alumni of Merton College, Oxford People educated at Oundle School Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George {{UK-diplomat-stub