{"id":60551,"date":"2015-08-20T10:08:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2db4363a786362abc5fe0ad9b300d73a"},"modified":"2015-08-20T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:08:57","slug":"news-story-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-the-united-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=60551","title":{"rendered":"News story: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the United States of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Sir Kim Darroch KCMG has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the United States of America in succession to Sir Peter Westmacott KCMG LVO, who will be retiring from the Diplomatic Service. Sir Kim will take up his appointment during January 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">CURRICULUM VITAE<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name:<\/td>\n<td>Sir Nigel Kim Darroch KCMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to:<\/td>\n<td>Vanessa Claire Darroch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children:<\/td>\n<td>Two<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>National Security Adviser, Cabinet Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 \u2013 2011<\/td>\n<td>UK Permanent Representative to the European Union, Brussels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004 \u2013 2007<\/td>\n<td>EU Adviser to the Prime Minister &amp; Head of the Cabinet Office European Secretariat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003 \u2013 2004<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director General, European Union Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director, European Union Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, News Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1997 \u2013 1998<\/td>\n<td>Brussels, Counsellor, UK Permanent Representation to the EU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1995 \u2013 1997<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, Adriatic Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1993 \u2013 1995<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Assistant (followed by Deputy Head) of European Union Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1989 \u2013 1992<\/td>\n<td>Rome, First Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1987 \u2013 1986<\/td>\n<td>Private Secretary to Minister of State dealing with Middle East, Arms Control &amp; Eastern Europe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1985 \u2013 1986<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, Maritime, Aviation &amp; Environment Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1980 \u2013 1984<\/td>\n<td>Tokyo, Third Secretary (followed by Second Secretary and First Secretary)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1978 \u2013 1979<\/td>\n<td>FCO, News Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1976 \u2013 1978<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Protocol Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1976<\/td>\n<td>Joined FCO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/world\/usa\">UK and USA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 Kim Darroch KCMG has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the United States of America<\/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\/60551"}],"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=60551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}