{"id":73130,"date":"2016-08-10T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=19f27a7dca440436f64e215ada942abd"},"modified":"2016-08-10T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:50:26","slug":"news-story-change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-solomon-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73130","title":{"rendered":"News story: Change of British High Commissioner to Solomon Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr David Ward has been appointed British High Commissioner to Solomon Islands and non-resident British High Commissioner to the Republic of Vanuatu and to the Republic of Nauru in succession to Mr Dominic Meiklejohn OBE.  Mr Ward will take up his appointment during September 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name<\/td>\n<td>David Ward<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2014 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>Asmara, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 \u2013 2014<\/td>\n<td>Lashkar Gah, Deputy Head of Mission, Provincial Reconstruction Team<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>Athens, Counsellor (Political)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Silver Manager, Olympic Coordination Centre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>Tripoli, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2011<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Senior Strategy Adviser, Policy Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Finance Briefing Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2009<\/td>\n<td>Beijing, Deputy Counsellor (Political)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002 \u2013 2005<\/td>\n<td>Kathmandu, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998 \u2013 2001<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Institutions Section, Common Foreign and Security Policy Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1995 \u2013 1998<\/td>\n<td>Tokyo, Second Secretary (Political)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1994 \u2013 1995<\/td>\n<td>Full-time language training (Japanese)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1992 \u2013 1993<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Assistant Desk Officer, EU Department (External)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1992<\/td>\n<td>Joined FCO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ukforeignoffice\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ukforeignoffice\">YouTube<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/foreign-and-commonwealth-office?trk=biz-companies-cym\">LinkedIn<\/a>\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 David Ward has been appointed British High Commissioner to Solomon Islands and non-resident British High Commissioner to the Republic of Vanuatu and the Republic of Nauru.<\/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\/73130"}],"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=73130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}