{"id":80099,"date":"2017-03-28T10:08:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=59d223a25011c8c21056daa3e1336b15"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T10:08:57","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80099","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Ms Alison Blackburne has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan in succession to Mr Tim Morris, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.  Ms Blackburne will take up her 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>Alison Blackburne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 2016<\/td>\n<td>Kampala, High Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>Washington, HM Consul General and Counsellor Corporate Services USA (Temporary Duty)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td>Jakarta, Deputy Head of Mission (Temporary Duty)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>Ministry of Justice, Principal Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2008<\/td>\n<td>UK Permanent Representation to the European Union Brussels, Political Counsellor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>Harare, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td>Stockholm, First Secretary Head of Political\/Economic Section<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>UK Permanent Mission to the United Nations New York, First Secretary (Economic and Social)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1995 \u2013 1996<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Russia, Ukraine and Moldova Section, Eastern Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1994 \u2013 1995<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Russia External\/Commonwealth of Independent States Section, Eastern Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1992 \u2013 1994<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer for Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) implementation, CFSP Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1989 \u2013 1992<\/td>\n<td>Warsaw, Third (then Second) Secretary Chancery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1987 \u2013 1989<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Assistant Desk Officer, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, East Africa Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1987<\/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>Ms Alison Blackburne has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan<\/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\/80099"}],"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=80099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}