{"id":79998,"date":"2017-03-24T13:44:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d4a4873c84635b806b577d142083b95b"},"modified":"2017-03-24T13:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:44:54","slug":"press-release-change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79998","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of British High Commissioner to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Nigel Casey CMG MVO has been appointed British High Commissioner to South Africa in succession to Dame Judith Macgregor DCMG LVO, who will be retiring from the Diplomatic Service.  Mr Casey will take up his appointment in April 2017<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name:<\/td>\n<td>Nigel Philip Casey CMG MVO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to:<\/td>\n<td>Clare Casey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children:<\/td>\n<td>One son and one daughter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2014 \u2013 2016<\/td>\n<td>Private Secretary to the Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 \u2013 2013<\/td>\n<td>Sarajevo, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 \u2013 2011<\/td>\n<td>New Delhi, Deputy High Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 \u2013 2009<\/td>\n<td>New Delhi, Political Counsellor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2007<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, Iraq Policy Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>Moscow, Head, External Section<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002<\/td>\n<td>Full-time Russian language training<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, G8 &amp; OECD Section, Economic Policy Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, Nuclear &amp; Missile Defence Section, Security Policy Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996 \u2013 1998<\/td>\n<td>Washington, Private Secretary to HM Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1993 \u2013 1995<\/td>\n<td>Johannesburg, Vice-Consul (Political\/Aid\/Press)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991 \u2013 1993<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, Hungary and Bulgaria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1991<\/td>\n<td>Joined Foreign and Commonwealth Office<\/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 Nigel Casey CMG MVO has been appointed British High Commissioner to South Africa<\/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\/79998"}],"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=79998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}