Nick Baird
CMG CVO (born 1962) is group corporate affairs director of energy firm,
Centrica. Before that he was Chief Executive Officer of
UK Trade & Investment
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. He is also a non executive director of NordAnglia inc, a Trustee of
Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the ...
, and a member of the Advisory Council of
Sheffield University School of Management.
Career
He joined the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983, with his first foreign posting being to
Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...
in 1986 then to the UK Representation to the
EU in
Brussels
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in 1989 as First Secretary, which he again served as Counsellor (Justice and Home Affairs) from 1998 to 2002. He then served from 1993-1997 as Private Secretary to the
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (or just Parliamentary Secretary, particularly in departments not led by a Secretary of State) is the lowest of three tiers of government minister in the UK government, immediately junior to a Minister ...
, then as head of the unit covering the EU Intergovernmental conference. His next foreign posting was to
Muscat
Muscat ( ar, مَسْقَط, ) is the capital and most populated city in Oman. It is the seat of the Governorate of Muscat. According to the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), the total population of Muscat Governorate was ...
as Deputy Head of Mission (1997). In 2002 he was appointed Head of the European Union Department, before being seconded the following year to direct immigration policy within the
Home Office. Subsequently, he was
Ambassador to
Turkey
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, and Director-General Europe & Globalisation. In July 2020,
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announced that he has been appointed chair elect of the national charity supporting unpaid carers, commencing in October 2020. Source
Sources
* UKT
External links
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Living people
1962 births
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Turkey
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order