Philip Ridley Hall (born 11 October 1967) is a British diplomat and solicitor, who has served as the
British Consul-General to Jerusalem since August 2017.
Early life
Philip Ridley Hall was born in
Chichester
Chichester () is a cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Date:2009. It is the only ci ...
,
West Sussex
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on 11 October 1967. Hall was born to J. Ridley Hall and Janette Lavinia Hall.
Hall was educated at
Cranleigh School
Cranleigh School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey.
History
It was opened on 29 September 1865 as a boys' school 'to provide a sound and plain education, on the principles o ...
,
and attended
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...
, graduating with a BA in Law in 1989.
He completed a Postgraduate Certificate in European Integration (Law) at
Saarland University
Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in si ...
, graduating in 1993. He later studied for an Executive Masters in Public Policy at the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
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, type = Public research university
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, graduating in 2017.
Career
Between 1994 and 1997, Hall worked for
HM Treasury
His Majesty's Treasury (HM Treasury), occasionally referred to as the Exchequer, or more informally the Treasury, is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance policy and ec ...
.
He joined the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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in 1997;
and headed the Middle East Peace Process Section from 1999 to 2001.
Hall served as the Deputy Head of the Africa Department (Equatorial) from 2001 to 2003.
He was appointed an in 2003.
Hall served as the Head of Division for the European Secretariat of the Cabinet Office from 2003 to 2006.
He was the Deputy Head of Mission in
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...
from 2007 to 2008,
and served as the Defence Counsellor in the British Delegation to
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...
from 2008 to 2012.
He headed the Counter Proliferation Department from 2012 to 2015.
Hall led the Spending Review at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 2015 to 2016.
Consul-General to Jerusalem
On 17 October 2016, Hall was appointed as the
British Consul-General to Jerusalem.
Hall took up the appointment in August 2017, succeeding
Alastair McPhail
Alastair David McPhail (born 2 March 1961) is a British diplomat who was the United Kingdom's first Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan, appointed in July 2011 when the country gained independence. He had served as consul-general from 16 ...
.
In February 2021, Hall condemned
Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community considers Israeli se ...
s in the
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
as "illegal and an obstacle to restarting peace talks".
Hall has been on the Board of Trustees for
St. John Eye Hospital Group since September 2017.
Personal life
Hall married his wife, Karine Hall, in 2005.
They have three children, one son and two daughters.
References
External links
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Biographyon
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21st-century British diplomats
1967 births
Living people
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Consuls-General of the United Kingdom to Jerusalem
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Saarland University alumni
Alumni of the London School of Economics
People from Chichester
People educated at Cranleigh School