Sir John Robertson "Rob" Young
GCMG (born 21 February 1945
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''Who's Who 2015'', A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014) is a retired British
diplomat
A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...
. He was the British
High Commissioner to
India from 1999 to 2003.
Career
Young was educated at
King Edward VI School, Norwich, and
Leicester University.
He entered the
Foreign Office
Foreign may refer to:
Government
* Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries
* Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries
** Foreign Office, a department of the UK government
** Foreign office and foreign minister
* Unit ...
in 1967 and his career focused on the
Middle East. He retired in 2003.
References
External links
*http://www.baps.org/News/1999/British-High-Commissioner-Sir-Rob-Young-visits-Shri-Swaminarayan-Madir-1882.aspx
The Daily Telegraph*https://books.google.com/books?id=YJin-qkgIeYC&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=rob+young+British+High+Commissioner+to+India&source=bl&ots=Zwbpe11a1r&sig=N2e6WOu3SQg456DnCPEeJOjktT0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ECdfUaiEL8b44QSjz4DwBQ&ved=0CGUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=rob%20young%20British%20High%20Commissioner%20to%20India&f=false
*http://www.hindu.com/businessline/2000/09/29/stories/042932ju.htm
1945 births
Living people
People educated at Norwich School
Alumni of the University of Leicester
High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to India
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
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