{"id":79033,"date":"2017-02-17T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4786d1a888b17c1e01fa5efaaaf2461d"},"modified":"2017-02-17T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:23:29","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-british-high-commissioner-to-the-republic-of-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79033","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s British High Commissioner to the Republic of Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Iain Walker has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s British High Commissioner to the Republic of Ghana in succession to Mr Jon Benjamin, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.  Mr Walker 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>Iain Walker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to<\/td>\n<td>Claire Walker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children<\/td>\n<td>Three<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director Finance and Board member<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Director Finance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010<\/td>\n<td>Joined FCO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>Price Water House Coopers, Assistant Director, Consulting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2008<\/td>\n<td>Cabinet Office, Policy Advisor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs, Head of Commercial and Change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002 \u2013 2004<\/td>\n<td>GOAL (Global NGO) Programme Management and Change (Malawi, Ethiopia, &amp; Zimbabwe)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998 \u2013 2002<\/td>\n<td>Ernst &amp; Young, Banking and Capital Markets<\/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 Iain Walker has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s British High Commissioner to the Republic of Ghana<\/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\/79033"}],"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=79033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}