{"id":74989,"date":"2016-10-13T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5ec23d1f1350f0c337ebf2f4f6e95806"},"modified":"2016-10-13T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:22:19","slug":"press-release-change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-mauritius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74989","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of British High Commissioner to Mauritius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Keith Allan has been appointed British High Commissioner to Mauritius in succession to Mr Jonathan Drew MBE, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.  Mr Allan will take up his appointment in August 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name<\/td>\n<td>Keith Rennie Allan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to<\/td>\n<td>Martha Harriette Medendorp-Allan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children<\/td>\n<td>One son and two daughters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>St Petersburg, Her Majesty\u2019s Consul General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2013<\/td>\n<td>Ashgabat, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2009<\/td>\n<td>Miami, Her Majesty\u2019s Consul General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>Port of Spain, Deputy High Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td>UK Trade &amp; Investment, Deputy Director Africa\/Middle East<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002<\/td>\n<td>Kabul, Consul<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000 \u2013 2001<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Central North West European Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1997 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>Tashkent, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996 \u2013 1997<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Counter Terrorism Policy Department<\/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 Keith Allan has been appointed British High Commissioner to Mauritius<\/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\/74989"}],"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=74989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}