{"id":78984,"date":"2017-02-16T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T13:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=16c153231ea5c176fc9e2b76550eafeb"},"modified":"2017-02-16T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T13:34:43","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-paraguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78984","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Paraguay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Matthew Hedges has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Paraguay in succession to Dr Jeremy Hobbs, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.  Mr Hedges 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>Matthew James Hedges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2015 \u2013 2016<\/td>\n<td>Princeton University, Master in Public Policy \u2013 International Relations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 2015<\/td>\n<td>Rangoon, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>Tokyo, Head of Political Section<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 \u2013 2009<\/td>\n<td>Turks &amp; Caicos Islands, Head of Governor\u2019s Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2008<\/td>\n<td>House of Commons, International Development Select Committee, Senior Clerk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005<\/td>\n<td>Basra, Head of Chancery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Team Leader, EU Constitutional Treaty\/Future of Europe, EU Directorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 \u2013 2005<\/td>\n<td>Rabat, Second Secretary Political<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000<\/td>\n<td>UK Mission to the UN in New York, Adviser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, NATO Enlargement, Security Policy Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999<\/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 Matthew Hedges has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to Paraguay<\/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\/78984"}],"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=78984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}