{"id":78174,"date":"2017-01-20T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b43e51df679dd335e2cf2afedd954823"},"modified":"2017-01-20T12:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:58:18","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78174","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Michael Gifford has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan in succession to Dr Carolyn Browne, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.  Mr Gifford will take up his appointment in early 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name<\/td>\n<td>Michael John Gifford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to<\/td>\n<td>Patricia Anne Gifford<\/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>2016 &#8211; present<\/td>\n<td>Full-time Russian language training<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012-2015<\/td>\n<td>Pyongyang, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008-2011<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head of Asset Management, Estates and Security Directorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004-2007<\/td>\n<td>Sana\u2019a, HM Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001-2004<\/td>\n<td>Cairo, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999-2000<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head of Counter Terrorism Policy Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996-1999<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Gulf Section, Middle East Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1993-1996<\/td>\n<td>Riyadh, First Secretary (Economic)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991-1993<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, European Community Department (External)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1990-1991<\/td>\n<td>Secondment to Secretariat-General, European Commission, Brussels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988-1990<\/td>\n<td>Oslo, Second Secretary (Chancery)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1983-1987<\/td>\n<td>Abu Dhabi, Third Secretary (Economic)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1981-1982<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, South Asian 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 Michael Gifford has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan<\/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\/78174"}],"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=78174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}