{"id":35503,"date":"2013-11-21T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d98d8c449f70c1a5784a9127a0d1561a"},"modified":"2013-11-21T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:07:17","slug":"press-release-change-of-high-commissioner-to-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=35503","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of High Commissioner to Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She will succeed Mr Shaun Cleary, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Ms Kuenssberg will take up her appointment during April 2014.<\/p>\n

Ms Kuenssberg joined the FCO in 1997 as a Europe specialist, after working on EU assistance programmes in the European Commission, and spent the next seven years on a range of EU political and economic issues. On returning from Paris, she worked closely with the Department for International Development and other government departments, as well as non-governmental organisations and businesses, to promote and extend responsible business practice especially in the extractives sector. This was followed by a project to use new technologies to develop more responsive consular services. <\/p>\n

For the past three years, Ms Kuenssberg has covered Africa and other foreign policy issues in Lisbon, as well as politics and economics.<\/p>\n

On her appointment as British High Commissioner to Mozambique, Ms Kuenssberg has said:<\/p>\n

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I am honoured and delighted to be appointed as British High Commissioner to Mozambique. Mozambique is a valued Commonwealth friend and I look forward to working to strengthen our countries\u2019 relationship even further, especially in support of our shared agenda of political and economic development.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Curriculum vitae<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Personal details<\/th>\n\u00a0<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Full name:<\/td>\nJoanna Kate Kuenssberg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marital status:<\/td>\nMarried<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Children:<\/td>\nThree sons<\/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
Period<\/th>\nPost<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Aug 2010 – present<\/td>\nLisbon, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 2010 \u2013 July 2010<\/td>\nLisbon, Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2010 \u2013 Aug 2010<\/td>\nFull-time language training (Portuguese)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 2010 \u2013 May 2010<\/td>\nFCO, Policy Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2009 \u2013 Feb 2010<\/td>\nFull-time language training (Russian)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 2008 \u2013 Nov 2009<\/td>\nFCO, Project Manager, Consular Strategy Programme<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 2004 \u2013 Aug 2007<\/td>\nFCO, Business Team Leader, Global Business\/Sustainable Development & Business Group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 2001 \u2013 Aug 2004<\/td>\nParis, First Secretary (EU\/Economic)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2000 \u2013 Jan 2001<\/td>\nSecondment to Quai d\u2019Orsay, EU Directorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 1999 \u2013 Apr 2000<\/td>\nSecondment to Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 1997 \u2013 Apr 1999<\/td>\nFCO, Deputy Head of Enlargement Section, EU Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nJoined FCO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 1996 \u2013 June 1997<\/td>\nEuropean Commission, Project Manager (EU enlargement)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 1995 \u2013 Aug 1996<\/td>\nDepartment of Environment, Desk Officer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Further information<\/h3>\n

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Ms Joanna Kuenssberg has been appointed British High Commissioner to Mozambique.<\/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\/35503"}],"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=35503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}