{"id":82119,"date":"2017-06-30T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=efd8992c1cf337ec6a6dd97575e23cf1"},"modified":"2017-06-30T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T16:22:07","slug":"press-release-change-of-governor-of-the-falkland-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=82119","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Governor of the Falkland Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Nigel Phillips CBE has been appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands and Her Majesty\u2019s Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in succession to Mr Colin Roberts CVO who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment.  Mr Phillips will take up his appointment in September 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name:<\/td>\n<td>Nigel Phillips<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to:<\/td>\n<td>Emma Phillips<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children:<\/td>\n<td>One daughter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2016 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>Ministry of Defence (MOD), UK Permanent Representation to the European Union, Brussels, Deputy Military Representative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2014 \u2013 2016<\/td>\n<td>MOD, Head, Russian Strategic Studies\/Wider Europe Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 \u2013 2014<\/td>\n<td>Member of Royal College of Defence Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 2013<\/td>\n<td>Language training (Russian), Defence Academy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>Warsaw, British Embassy, Defence Attach\u00e9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 \u2013 2009<\/td>\n<td>Defence College Communications Information Systems, Deputy Commandant and Garrison Commander<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003 \u2013 2007<\/td>\n<td>Stockholm, British Embassy, Defence Attach\u00e9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td>Defence Communications Services Agency, Senior Staff Officer Communication Operations Planning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000 \u2013 2001<\/td>\n<td>Defence Academy, Advanced Command and Staff Course, Student<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1984 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>Member of the Royal Air Force (RAF), various appointments<\/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 Phillips CBE has been appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands and Her Majesty\u2019s Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands<\/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\/82119"}],"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=82119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}