{"id":65715,"date":"2015-12-18T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5922795d331af8465c9ddd42a6740685"},"modified":"2016-01-29T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:53:17","slug":"news-story-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65715","title":{"rendered":"News story: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Added translation<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Sir Julian King KCVO CMG has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the French Republic in succession to Sir Peter Ricketts GCMG GCVO, who will be retiring from the Diplomatic Service in January 2016.  Sir Julian will take up his appointment at the start of February 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name:<\/td>\n<td>Sir Julian King KCVO CMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to:<\/td>\n<td>Lotte Knudsen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2014 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director-General Economic &amp; Consular<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 \u2013 2014<\/td>\n<td>Director General of the Northern Ireland Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 \u2013 2011<\/td>\n<td>Dublin, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 \u2013 2009<\/td>\n<td>EU Commission, Chef de Cabinet to British Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004 \u2013 2008<\/td>\n<td>UK Rep Brussels, UK Representative on EU Political and Security Committee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003 \u2013 2004<\/td>\n<td>UKMis New York, Counsellor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td>UKRep Brussels, First Secretary later Counsellor working on enlargement<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1994 \u2013 1998<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary of State<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1990 \u2013 1994<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Second later First Secretary working on NATO and European Defence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1987 \u2013 1990<\/td>\n<td>Paris, Third later Second Secretary, Ecole Nationale d\u2019Administration; later Private Secretary to Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1985 \u2013 1987<\/td>\n<td>Joined FCO, worked on Latin America and Western Europe<\/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>Sir Julian King KCVO CMG has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the French Republic<\/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\/65715"}],"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=65715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67086,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65715\/revisions\/67086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}