{"id":66008,"date":"2015-12-31T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=eac779bb0e7aca276854aec605a29951"},"modified":"2015-12-31T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:28:24","slug":"press-release-change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66008","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of British High Commissioner to Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Peter West CMG has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Uganda in succession to Ms Alison Blackburne, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.  Mr West 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>Peter West CMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to<\/td>\n<td>Julia West<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children<\/td>\n<td>Three<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>Freetown, British High Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 \u2013 2013<\/td>\n<td>Lagos, Deputy High Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 \u2013 2011<\/td>\n<td>Abuja, Deputy High Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004 \u2013 2008<\/td>\n<td>Melbourne, Consul General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000 \u2013 2004<\/td>\n<td>Bangkok, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1997 \u2013 1999<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head, South Asian Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1992 \u2013 1997<\/td>\n<td>Copenhagen, First Secretary (Political\/EU)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991 \u2013 1992<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Section, Latin America Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1989 \u2013 1991<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, Security Coordination Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1986 \u2013 1988<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, Southern African Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1984 \u2013 1986<\/td>\n<td>Auckland, Vice Consul (Commercial)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1980 \u2013 1983<\/td>\n<td>Buenos Aires, Third Secretary\/Vice Consul<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1978 \u2013 1979<\/td>\n<td>Ankara, Third Secretary (Aid)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1977<\/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 Peter West CMG has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Uganda<\/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\/66008"}],"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=66008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}