{"id":15640,"date":"2013-06-11T11:01:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a0616981575a0da701897ba74270415b"},"modified":"2013-06-11T11:01:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:01:05","slug":"news-story-change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=15640","title":{"rendered":"News story: Change of British High Commissioner to Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He will succeed Mr Howard Drake, who has transferred to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Fitton will take up his appointment during June 2013.<\/p>\n

Mr Fitton joined the FCO in 1980 and was, until recently, Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Tokyo. His FCO career has included a variety of roles in the UK and overseas, including several postings in Japan, India and Turkey, and work on African, Asian, EU and consular affairs in London.<\/p>\n

On his appointment as British High Commissioner to Jamaica, Mr Fitton has said: <\/p>\n

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I am delighted to be going to Jamaica as High Commissioner. It is a great privilege to work with a Commonwealth partner with whom we have such important relations. Relations between Jamaica and the UK are extremely close and constructive. I look forward to helping strengthen them further in my new role.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Curriculum vitae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Full name:<\/th>\nDavid John Fitton<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Married to:<\/td>\nHisae Fitton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Children:<\/td>\nOne daughter, one son<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\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
2008 \u2013 2012<\/td>\nTokyo, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nFCO, Project Leader for FCO Services Joint Evaluation Team<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004 \u2013 2006<\/td>\nFCO, Head, Consular Crisis Group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003 \u2013 2004<\/td>\nIstanbul, Consul General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001 \u2013 2004<\/td>\nAnkara, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996 \u2013 2000<\/td>\nTokyo, Counsellor (Political)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993 \u2013 1996<\/td>\nFCO, Deputy Head Southern European Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990 \u2013 1993<\/td>\nNew Delhi, First Secretary Political<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988 \u2013 1990<\/td>\nFCO, Head of India Team<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986 \u2013 1988<\/td>\nFCO, European Department (External)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1982 – 1986<\/td>\nTokyo, Second, later First Secretary Economic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981 \u2013 1982<\/td>\nFull time language training (Japanese)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980 \u2013 1981<\/td>\nFCO, Desk Officer West African Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/td>\nJoined FCO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Further information<\/h2>\n

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Mr David Fitton CMG has been appointed British High Commissioner to Jamaica.<\/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\/15640"}],"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=15640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}