{"id":81042,"date":"2017-04-25T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ad0e83da1c25adaf79e43361a0b7c39b"},"modified":"2017-04-25T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:32:01","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-kuwait-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81042","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Michael Davenport MBE has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the State of Kuwait in succession to Mr Matthew Lodge, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Davenport will take up his appointment during September 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name<\/td>\n<td>Michael Davenport MBE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to<\/td>\n<td>Dr Lavinia Davenport<\/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>2013 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>Serbia, EU Ambassador and Head of EU Delegation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2013<\/td>\n<td>Belgrade, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director, Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia Directorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004 \u2013 2007<\/td>\n<td>Cairo, Deputy Head of Mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td>Warsaw, Consul-General and Director for Trade Promotion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996 \u2013 1999<\/td>\n<td>Moscow, First Secretary Political (External)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1993 \u2013 1996<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, UN Peacekeeping Section, United Nations Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1990 \u2013 1993<\/td>\n<td>Warsaw, Second Secretary, Know-How Fund<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988 \u2013 1989<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Desk Officer, East Africa 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 Davenport MBE has been appointed Her Majesty&#8217;s Ambassador to the State of Kuwait<\/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\/81042"}],"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=81042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}