{"id":61125,"date":"2015-09-07T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a8298d8afd5b0b5ae6aec012554ffdd2"},"modified":"2015-09-07T12:29:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:29:29","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=61125","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Brian Davidson has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand in succession to Mr Mark Kent, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.  Mr Davidson will take up his appointment during September 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name<\/td>\n<td>Brian John Davidson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to<\/td>\n<td>Mr Scott Kelly Chang<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 \u2013 2015<\/td>\n<td>Shanghai, Consul General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>Guangzhou, Consul General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>International Financial Services London, Deputy Chief Executive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 \u2013 2004<\/td>\n<td>Vilnius, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001<\/td>\n<td>Language training (Lithuanian)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Hajj Pilgrimage committee reviewer, Consular Directorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>Canberra, First Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1994 \u2013 1996<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of China Section<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1992 \u2013 1994<\/td>\n<td>Cabinet Office, Desk Officer, Assessments Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988 \u2013 1992<\/td>\n<td>Beijing, Second Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1986 \u2013 1988<\/td>\n<td>Language training (Mandarin Chinese)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1985 \u2013 1986<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer Czechoslovakia\/Bulgaria, East European Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1985<\/td>\n<td>Joined FCO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>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>\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>Mr Brian Davidson is to succeed Mr Mark Kent as Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand<\/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\/61125"}],"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=61125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}