{"id":13394,"date":"2013-05-29T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=de2dc2452da117d6455390912f989233"},"modified":"2013-05-29T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:30:07","slug":"news-story-change-of-governor-of-turks-and-caicos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=13394","title":{"rendered":"News story: Change of Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He will succeed Mr Ric Todd, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Beckingham will take up his appointment during October 2013.<\/p>\n

Mr Beckingham is currently Deputy High Commissioner in India, heading the Mumbai \u2013Western Indian offices. His previous appointments overseas include Ambassador to the Philippines (and non-resident Ambassador to Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands), Consul-General and Director-General of Trade and Investment Sydney, and Director British Information Services New York. He was a Director of the Joint FCO\/DTI Export Promotion Directorate in London, ran the commercial section of the Embassy in Stockholm, and had a short-term secondment to Cadbury-Schweppes.<\/p>\n

On his appointment as Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands, Mr Beckingham has said: <\/p>\n

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I am honoured and delighted to have been appointed Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands. I look forward to working with the elected government there to strengthen the Islands\u2019 prosperity, and helping to support, with my wife, their rich culture, world-class environment and important relationship with the UK.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Curriculum vitae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Personal details<\/th>\n\u00a0<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Full name:<\/td>\nPeter Beckingham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Married to:<\/td>\nJill Mary Beckingham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Children:<\/td>\nTwo daughters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/th>\nPost<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2010 – present<\/td>\nMumbai, Deputy High Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005 – 2009<\/td>\nManila, Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999 – 2004<\/td>\nSydney, Director-General of Trade & Investment, and Consul-General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996 – 1999<\/td>\nFCO\/DTI, Director, Joint Export Promotion Directorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992 – 1996<\/td>\nCanberra, Head of Political Section<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988 – 1992<\/td>\nStockholm, Head of Commercial Section<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986 – 1988<\/td>\nFCO, Head, Horn of Africa Section, East African Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984 – 1986<\/td>\nFCO, Energy, Science and Space Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/td>\nFCO, News Department (G7 Summit)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1979 – 1983<\/td>\nNew York, Director, British Information Services<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1974 – 1979<\/td>\nDTI, British Overseas Trade Board<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1970 – 1974<\/td>\nDecca Record Company, Argo Division<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Further information<\/h2>\n

UK and Turks and Caicos Islands on GOV.UK<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mr Peter Beckingham has been appointed Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}