{"id":65594,"date":"2015-12-17T09:54:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T09:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c93341b8d23001ef8f65d7bb41cf4d97"},"modified":"2015-12-17T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T09:54:17","slug":"news-story-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-austria-and-uk-permanent-representative-to-the-united-nations-in-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65594","title":{"rendered":"News story: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Leigh Turner CMG has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Republic of Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna in succession to Mrs Susan le Jeune d\u2019Allegeershecque CMG, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.  Mr Turner will take up his appointment during August 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name:<\/td>\n<td>Robert Leigh Turner CMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>Istanbul, Her Majesty\u2019s Consul General and Director General UK Trade &amp; Investment, Turkey, South Caucasus &amp; Central Asia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>Kyiv, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2008<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director, Overseas Territories<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>Special Unpaid leave<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998 \u2013 2002<\/td>\n<td>Bonn (later Berlin), Counsellor, EU\/Economic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1995 \u2013 1998<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head, Hong Kong Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1992 \u2013 1995<\/td>\n<td>Moscow, First Secretary, Economic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991<\/td>\n<td>Language training (Russian)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1989 \u2013 1991<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, Security Co-ordination Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1987 \u2013 1989<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, Europe Directorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1984 \u2013 1987<\/td>\n<td>Vienna, Second Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1983<\/td>\n<td>Joined FCO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1979 \u2013 83<\/td>\n<td>HM Treasury, Departments of the Environment &amp; Transport<\/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 Leigh Turner CMG has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the Republic of Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna<\/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\/65594"}],"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=65594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}