Press release: Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of Congo: Dr John Murton
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Dr John Murton has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo in succession to Mr Graham Zebedee. Dr Murton will take up his appointment during September 2017.
Curriculum Vitae
Full name: Dr John Evan Murton
Married to: Zoe Ellen Murton
Children: 3
| 2013 to the present | Nairobi, Deputy High Commissioner |
| 2010 to 2013 | Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Head, East Asia and Pacific Department |
| 2007 to 2010 | Port Louis, British High Commissioner & Her Majesty’s non-resident Ambassador to Madagascar and the Comoros |
| 2004 to 2007 | NATO, Deputy Director, Secretary General’s Private Office |
| 2002 to 2004 | Tokyo, First Secretary |
| 2000 to 2002 | Tokyo, Second Secretary |
| 1998 to 2000 | Language training (Japanese) |
| 1997 to 1998 | Foreign & Commonwealth Office Desk Officer, Conflict Prevention, UN Department |
| 1997 | Joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office |
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