{"id":62521,"date":"2015-10-06T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=37a64aeb777ed7d403ffe9cee112baa5"},"modified":"2015-10-06T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T10:28:10","slug":"news-story-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=62521","title":{"rendered":"News story: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Richard Morris has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in succession to Mr Andrew Sparkes CMG, who has retired from the Diplomatic Service.  Mr Morris will take up his appointment during November 2015.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">CURRICULUM VITAE<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name:<\/td>\n<td>Richard Morris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to:<\/td>\n<td>Alison Morris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children:<\/td>\n<td>One daughter, two sons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>FCO Head, Pacific Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 \u2013 2013<\/td>\n<td>Sydney, HM Consul General and Director General UKTI Australasia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005 \u2013 2008<\/td>\n<td>Mexico City, Deputy Head of Mission and HM Consul General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 \u2013 2004<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Assistance Group, Consular Directorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000 \u2013 2001<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Resource Accounting and Budgeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>Bridgetown, Second Secretary, Political<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1993 \u2013 1996<\/td>\n<td>Ottawa, Third Secretary, Political<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991 \u2013 1992<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Assistant Desk Officer, Cultural Relations Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1990 \u2013 1991<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Assistant Desk Officer, Non-Proliferation and Defence 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>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>Mr Richard Morris has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal<\/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\/62521"}],"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=62521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}