Nick Baird CMG CVO (born 1962) is group corporate affairs director of energy firm, Centrica. Before that he was Chief Executive Officer of

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. He is also a non executive director of NordAnglia inc, a Trustee of

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, 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 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 ...

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

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, then as head of the unit covering the EU Intergovernmental conference. His next foreign posting was to

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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 Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

, 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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