{"id":54451,"date":"2015-02-27T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T10:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=117553fb4013ef8ee843e09dbd3f4172"},"modified":"2015-02-27T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T10:03:01","slug":"press-release-change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54451","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of British High Commissioner to Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr Scott Wightman CMG has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Singapore in succession to Mr Antony Phillipson, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Wightman will take up his appointment later this year.<\/p>\n

Mr Wightman joined the FCO in 1983. He has worked in the British Embassies in Beijing, Paris and Rome, where he was Deputy Head of Mission from 2002 to 2006. He was Director for Global and Economic Issues in the FCO from 2006-2008, then Director for Asia Pacific from 2008 to 2010. His most recent appointment was as HM Ambassador to the Republic of Korea until January 2015.<\/p>\n

On his appointment as British High Commissioner to the Republic of Singapore, Mr Wightman said: <\/p>\n

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I am honoured to have been appointed the next British High Commissioner to Singapore. In this 50th anniversary year of Singapore\u2019s independence I look forward to building on President Tan\u2019s successful State Visit to the UK last year and to helping develop further the close economic, political and cultural relationship between our two countries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CURRICULUM VITAE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Full name:<\/th>\nAndrew Norman Scott Wightman CMG<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2011 \u2013 Jan 2015<\/td>\nSeoul, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008 \u2013 2010<\/td>\nFCO, Director, Asia Pacific<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006 \u2013 2008<\/td>\nFCO, Director, Global and Economic Issues<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002 \u2013 2006<\/td>\nBritish Embassy, Rome, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998 \u2013 2001<\/td>\nFCO, Assistant Director, Personnel Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995 \u2013 1998<\/td>\nBritish Embassy, Paris, First Secretary, External<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994 \u2013 1995<\/td>\nOn secondment at French Foreign Ministry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991 \u2013 1993<\/td>\nFCO, Resource and Finance Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989 \u2013 1991<\/td>\nCabinet Office, Assessment Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986 \u2013 1989<\/td>\nBritish Embassy, Beijing, Second Secretary, Commercial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984 \u2013 1986<\/td>\nChinese language training<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/td>\nJoined FCO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Mr Scott Wightman CMG has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Singapore.<\/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\/54451"}],"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=54451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}