{"id":71427,"date":"2016-06-15T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6af15308d1690d5eba167339ca234cda"},"modified":"2016-06-15T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T12:58:02","slug":"news-story-change-of-governor-of-turks-and-caicos-islands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71427","title":{"rendered":"News story: Change of Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Dr John Freeman CMG has been appointed Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands in succession to Mr Peter Beckingham, who will be retiring from the Diplomatic Service.  Dr Freeman will take up his appointment during October 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name:<\/td>\n<td>John Freeman CMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to:<\/td>\n<td>Corinna Freeman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children:<\/td>\n<td>Two<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>Buenos Aires, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td>Full time language training (Spanish)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2011<\/td>\n<td>Secondment, Deputy Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador for Multilateral Arms Control [from 2005] and Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Conference on Disarmament [from 2004], Geneva<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 \u2013 2004<\/td>\n<td>Brussels, Deputy Permanent Representative at NATO and Alternate Representative on the North Atlantic Council<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1997 \u2013 2001<\/td>\n<td>Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN agencies in Vienna<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1994 \u2013 1997<\/td>\n<td>Singapore, Deputy High Commissioner and Commercial and Economic Counsellor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1994<\/td>\n<td>Attached to the Trade Promotion division of the Department of Trade and Industry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991 \u2013 1994<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head of the Eastern (later Central) European Department, and, secondly, as Head of the Security Co-ordination Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1989 \u2013 1991<\/td>\n<td>Senate Liaison, British Military Government in Berlin, and subsequently Head of the Political Section in the Berlin Office of the British Embassy in Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1986 \u2013 1989<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of South Africa Section<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1983 \u2013 1986<\/td>\n<td>Member, UK Delegation to Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe meetings in Helsinki and Stockholm (at the Conference on Disarmament in Europe)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1977 \u2013 1983<\/td>\n<td>Ministry of Defence, Various appointments<\/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>Dr John Freeman CMG has been appointed Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands in succession to Mr Peter Beckingham.<\/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\/71427"}],"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=71427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}