Sir Stephen John Leadbetter Wright,

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(born 7 December 1946) is a retired British diplomat who was Chief Executive Officer of International Financial Services London from 2008 to 2010 and is currently a Senior Adviser to Mitsui & Co. Born in

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, Wright was educated at

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and

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, from pr-inside.com where he read

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. He joined

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in 1968 and served in

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He was Director for European Union Affairs at the

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(FCO) 1994–1996, deputy

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at the FCO from 2000 to 2002, and

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and the Principality of

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2003–2007.WRIGHT, Sir Stephen (John Leadbetter)
''Who's Who 2012'' (A & C Black, 2012); online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011, accessed 21 June 2012 ''Diplomatic Service List'', Vol. 36 (2001), p. 327: “Wright, Stephen... Chancery New Delhi 1988; Counsellor (External Relations) UKREP Brussels 1991; Director (EU Affairs) FCO 1994; Minister Washington 1997. Director (Wider Europe) FCO 1999; m 1970 Georgina Susan Butler (1d 1977; Is 1979)” Since retiring from the Diplomatic Service in 2007, Wright has been a senior adviser to the

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as well as CEO of International Financial Services London 2008–2010, senior adviser to

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2010–11, and Senior Adviser to Mitsui & Co Europe plc since 2008. Wright became a trustee of the Zurbaran Trust, part of the Auckland Project, in 2016; and Hon Secretary of the Pilgrims Society of Great Britain in 2017. Soon after joining the diplomatic service, Wright married

Georgina Butler Georgina Susan Butler (born 30 November 1945) is a retired British diplomat. After postings at the Foreign Office, UKREP in Brussels, the European Commission, and in Washington D.C., she served as British Ambassador to Costa Rica and to Nicaragu ...

, and they had a son and a daughter. The marriage was dissolved in 2000.“Butler, HE Georgina Susan” in ''People of Today'' (2006), p. 245 In 2002 he married Elizabeth Abbott (Abbey) Rosemont. Wright’s recreations are music, opera, art, and rowing.

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