{"id":60974,"date":"2015-09-03T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T13:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ea74ea6b8ef7602146d5c5ed079b15a3"},"modified":"2015-09-03T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T13:03:51","slug":"news-story-appointment-of-her-majestys-ambassador-designate-to-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=60974","title":{"rendered":"News story: Appointment of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador Designate to Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Hugo Shorter has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador Designate to Lebanon in succession to Tom Fletcher who took up another appointment outside the FCO. He will be assuming his post initially as Charge D\u2019Affaires with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">CURRICULUM VITAE<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name:<\/td>\n<td>Hugo Shorter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Partner\/Spouse:<\/td>\n<td>Laura Shorter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children:<\/td>\n<td>One daughter and two sons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 2015<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, Europe Directorate External<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>Paris, Counsellor, Europe &amp; Global issues<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004 \u2013 2007<\/td>\n<td>Brasilia, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 \u2013 2004<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head North East Asia &amp; Pacific Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000 \u2013 2001<\/td>\n<td>Private Secretary to Minister of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, Trade Policy Section, EU Department-External<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1994 \u2013 1998<\/td>\n<td>UKDel NATO, Second, later First Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1992 \u2013 1993<\/td>\n<td>Attachment to \u00c9cole Nationale d\u2019Administration, Paris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1990 \u2013 1992<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer Spain &amp; Portugal, Southern European Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1990<\/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\/lebanon\">UK and Lebanon<\/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>Hugo Shorter has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador Designate to Lebanon<\/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\/60974"}],"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=60974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}