{"id":53905,"date":"2015-02-13T15:15:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bd1c8b6fd8de17fcd220950b5b4ded09"},"modified":"2015-02-13T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:15:40","slug":"press-release-change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-the-republic-of-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53905","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of British High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ms Joanne Lomas has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia in succession to Ms Marianne Young, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Ms Lomas will take up her appointment during September 2015.<\/p>\n

Ms Lomas joined the FCO in 1993 and is currently serving as Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Sarajevo. She was previously Head of the FCO\u2019s Global Response Centre and has been posted to the UK\u2019s Mission to the UN in Geneva and the British Embassy in Damascus.<\/p>\n

On her appointment as British High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia, Ms Lomas has said:<\/p>\n

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I am honoured to have been appointed as the United Kingdom\u2019s next High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia and look forward to further strengthening our bilateral, Commonwealth and commercial ties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CURRICULUM VITAE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Full name:<\/th>\nJoanne Lomas (known as Jo)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2011 \u2013 present<\/td>\nSarajevo, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nFCO, Head, Global Response Centre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nFCO, Team Leader, FCO Response Centre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006 \u2013 2008<\/td>\nFCO, Internal Communication Team Leader & Leadership Conference Project Manager<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001 \u2013 2006<\/td>\nGeneva, UK Mission to the UN, Second Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997 \u2013 2000<\/td>\nDamascus, Third Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nBagdad UNSCOM, Press Officer\/Special Assistant to the Director<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995 \u2013 1997<\/td>\nArabic language training<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993 \u2013 1995<\/td>\nFCO, Desk Officer, United Nations Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Further information<\/h3>\n

UK and Namibia<\/a><\/p>\n

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Joanne Lomas has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia.<\/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\/53905"}],"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=53905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}