{"id":76432,"date":"2016-11-24T13:14:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T13:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1f6f3098042b705f4e23f153715f206e"},"modified":"2016-11-24T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T13:14:32","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=76432","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Dr Vijay Rangarajan CMG has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil in succession to Mr Alexander Ellis.  Dr Rangarajan will take up his appointment in Spring 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name<\/td>\n<td>Francis Vijay Narasimhan Rangarajan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to<\/td>\n<td>Rosemary Rangarajan<\/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>2013 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Europe Director<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 \u2013 2013<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director of Multilateral Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2011<\/td>\n<td>Cabinet Office, Director of Political and Constitutional Reform<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>Ministry of Justice, Constitution Director<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2008<\/td>\n<td>Brussels, Justice and Home Affairs Counsellor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006<\/td>\n<td>Mexico City, Political-Economic Counsellor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005<\/td>\n<td>Mexico City, Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003 \u2013 2005<\/td>\n<td>Mexico City, Political-Economic Counsellor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of European Defence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999 \u2013 2001<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996 \u2013 1999<\/td>\n<td>UKRep Brussels, trade policy, then Antici<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1995 \u2013 1996<\/td>\n<td>EU Inter Governmental Conference Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1995<\/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>Dr Vijay Rangarajan CMG has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil<\/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\/76432"}],"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=76432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}