{"id":46013,"date":"2014-08-04T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=15d58c9f755e268809198d3764736bc3"},"modified":"2014-08-04T16:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:30:40","slug":"press-release-sir-alan-duncan-appointed-government-special-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46013","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Sir Alan Duncan appointed Government Special Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Sir Alan Duncan served as Minister of State for International Development from 2010 to 2014. In his new roles, Sir Alan will work to help deliver the government\u2019s Yemen Strategy, which includes security, stability and development objectives, and separately, to maintain and further strengthen the UK\u2019s strong bilateral relationship with Oman.<\/p>\n<p>Curriculum vitae<\/p>\n<p>Sir Alan has been the Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Education<\/p>\n<p>Sir Alan attended Beechwood Park School in Hertfordshire and Merchant Taylors\u2019 School before going on to study politics and economics at St John\u2019s College, Oxford from 1976 to 1979, where he was elected President of the Oxford Union.<br \/>\nHe then went on to win a Kennedy Scholarship at Harvard University, where he studied from 1981 to 1982<\/p>\n<p>Political career<\/p>\n<p>Alan held a number of roles in the Shadow Cabinet before being appointed Minister of State for International Development. He has travelled extensively in the Middle East and has built strong relationships in both Oman and Yemen.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Alan Duncan has been appointed as the Government\u2019s Special Envoy to Yemen and Special Envoy to Oman.<\/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\/46013"}],"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=46013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}