{"id":65993,"date":"2015-12-31T10:14:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T10:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=42816da6220bfd556585e0b871270f56"},"modified":"2015-12-31T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T10:14:33","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-afghanistan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65993","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Dominic Jermey CVO OBE has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in succession to Ms Karen Pierce CMG, who will take up her appointment as Chief Operating Officer at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.  Mr Jermey will take up his appointment during February 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name<\/td>\n<td>Dominic James Robert Jermey CVO OBE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to<\/td>\n<td>Clare Judith Jermey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children<\/td>\n<td>Two<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2015 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>FCO, International Counter Extremism Co-ordinator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2014 \u2013 2015<\/td>\n<td>UK Trade &amp; Investment, Chief Executive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2014<\/td>\n<td>Abu Dhabi, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>UKTI, Managing Director, Sectors Group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008<\/td>\n<td>UKTI Defence and Security Organisation, Head<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005<\/td>\n<td>Thailand, Head, British Tsunami Team<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004 \u2013 2007<\/td>\n<td>Madrid, Deputy Head of Mission and Director, UKTI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, Consular Crisis Group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 \u2013 2002<\/td>\n<td>Kabul, Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires ad interim; FCO, Afghanistan Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Peacekeeping, United Nations Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>East Timor, British Representative to the UN Administration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1995 \u2013 1999<\/td>\n<td>Islamabad, Second Secretary (Political), then First Secretary (Afghanistan)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1993 \u2013 1994<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Developing Countries Desk Officer, European Union Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1993<\/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 Dominic Jermey CVO OBE has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan<\/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\/65993"}],"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=65993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}