{"id":70905,"date":"2016-05-25T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T10:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ea18413ea83efd5c2be6846074d18ce9"},"modified":"2016-05-25T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T10:39:55","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70905","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Robin Barnett CMG has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Ireland in succession to Mr Dominick Chilcott CMG, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.  Mr Barnett 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>Robin Barnett CMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children<\/td>\n<td>One son. Three stepchildren<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 \u2013 2016<\/td>\n<td>Warsaw, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2011<\/td>\n<td>Managing Director Business Group, UK Trade &amp; Investment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Romania<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>Director of UK Visas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 \u2013 2002<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Afghanistan Emergency Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998 \u2013 2001<\/td>\n<td>British Embassy Warsaw, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996 \u2013 1998<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head, Eastern Adriatic Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991 \u2013 1995<\/td>\n<td>UKMIS New York, First Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1990 \u2013 1991<\/td>\n<td>UKDEL Vienna, First Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988 \u2013 1990<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, Security Policy Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1985 \u2013 1988<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, European Community Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1982 \u2013 1985<\/td>\n<td>Warsaw, Third\/Second Secretary Political<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1980 \u2013 1982<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, Indonesia\/Philippines<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1980<\/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 Robin Barnett CMG has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to Ireland<\/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\/70905"}],"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=70905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}