Sir Roger Carrick (born 13 October 1937) is a former British diplomat and an author and business adviser.

Career

Carrick was educated at Isleworth Grammar School (now

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). He passed the examination for Her Majesty's Foreign Service, later Diplomatic Service in 1956, but spent only 11 days there before departing for

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in the

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1956–58, during which he learned Russian at the

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. He then returned to the Foreign Office (later the

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, FCO). He served in London, and was sent to the

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in 1961 to do a degree course in Bulgarian language and literature in one year. He served at Sofia, Paris and Singapore, was a visiting fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, 1977–78, and a Political Counsellor at the Washington Embassy 1978–82. After further service at the FCO, he was made Consul-General at Chicago 1985–88, Assistant Under-Secretary (Economic) at the FCO 1988–90, Ambassador to Indonesia 1990–94 and High Commissioner to Australia 1994–97. After a farewell tour of Australia in the High Commission's champagne oyster-coloured

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IV. Carrick retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1997 at the then mandatory age of 60. He has been chairman of various companies including Strategy International and Lime Finance. Carrick was appointed LVO in 1972 and CMG in the

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of 1983, and knighted KCMG in the

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of 1995.Supplement to the London Gazette, 17 June 1995
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Publications

*''East-West technology transfer in perspective'', Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1978. *''RolleroundOz: reflections on a journey around Australia'', Allen & Unwin, 1998. *''Admiral

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RN, founder & first governor of Australia: a British view'', Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 2011 *''Diplomatic Anecdotage: Around the World in 40 Years'', Elliott & Thompson, London, 2012. Various articles in learned and other journals, chapters in books, including Symphony for Australia (2007), The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave Macmillan 2017

References

External links

CARRICK, Sir Roger (John)
''Who's Who 2013'', A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
Interview with Sir Roger Carrick
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge, 8 January 2004 {{DEFAULTSORT:Carrick, Roger John 1937 births Living people Alumni of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Indonesia High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Australia British non-fiction writers Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order British male writers Male non-fiction writers