{"id":71108,"date":"2016-06-01T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=60c572f3591e214137d6143ab0744538"},"modified":"2016-06-01T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:28:49","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71108","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Ms Kate Smith CMG has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic in succession to Mr John Kittmer.  Ms Smith will take up her appointment during January 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name<\/td>\n<td>Katherine Lucy Smith CMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 2016<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director Americas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>Shell International, Head of UK Government Relations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 \u2013 2009<\/td>\n<td>Secondment to Shell International, International Government Relations Advisor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Policy Planning Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005 \u2013 2007<\/td>\n<td>Tehran, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004 \u2013 2005<\/td>\n<td>Full time language training (Persian)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003 \u2013 2004<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of the Security Sector Unit, Iraq Policy Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head, Security Policy Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1997 \u2013 2001<\/td>\n<td>UK Mission to the UN in New York, First Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1994 \u2013 1997<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Chemical and Biological Weapons Section, Counter Proliferation Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991 \u2013 1994<\/td>\n<td>Athens, Second Secretary Press and Internal Political<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1990 \u2013 1991<\/td>\n<td>Full time language training (Greek)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988 \u2013 1990<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer for Malawi and Zambia, Central African Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988<\/td>\n<td>Lusaka, Economic Reporting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1987<\/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>Ms Kate Smith CMG has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the Hellenic 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\/71108"}],"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=71108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}