{"id":74280,"date":"2016-09-19T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4474ecacd949ae16829a3396d7e0879f"},"modified":"2016-09-19T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:05:00","slug":"press-release-fco-press-release-change-of-governor-of-bermuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74280","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Governor of Bermuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr John Rankin CMG has been appointed Governor of Bermuda in succession to Mr George Fergusson, who has transferred to another appointment. Mr Rankin will take up his appointment during December 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name<\/td>\n<td>John James Rankin CMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>April \u2013 August 2016<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Acting Director, Americas Directorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2015<\/td>\n<td>Kathmandu, Acting Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 \u2013 2015<\/td>\n<td>Sri Lanka and the Maldives, British High Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director, Americas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 \u2013 2008<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Assistant Director, Human Resources (Operations)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003 \u2013 2007<\/td>\n<td>Boston, Her Majesty\u2019s Consul General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td>Dublin, Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998 \u2013 1999<\/td>\n<td>Dublin, First Secretary (Political)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996 \u2013 1998<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head, OSCE and Council of Europe Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1994 \u2013 1996<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Senior Assistant Legal Adviser and later Legal Counsellor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991 \u2013 1994<\/td>\n<td>Geneva, Legal Adviser, UKMis and UKDis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988 \u2013 1991<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Assistant Legal Adviser and later Senior Assistant Legal Adviser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988<\/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> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>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><\/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 John Rankin CMG has been appointed Governor of Bermuda.<\/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\/74280"}],"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=74280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74321,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74280\/revisions\/74321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}