{"id":82513,"date":"2017-07-13T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T10:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f9a809f286bb1e0a69fedd455c10fcfe"},"modified":"2017-07-13T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T10:04:12","slug":"press-release-change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-cyprus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=82513","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of British High Commissioner to Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Mr Stephen Lillie CMG has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Cyprus in succession to Mr Matthew Kidd CMG. Mr Lillie will take up his appointment in Spring 2018.<\/p>\n<p>CURRICULUM VITAE<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name: Stephen Lillie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to: Denise Chit Lo Lillie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Children: Two<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2017<\/td>\n<td>Full time language training<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 \u2013 2017<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director, Asia Pacific<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009 \u2013 2013<\/td>\n<td>Manila, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador and Non-Resident Ambassador to Palau, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2009<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, Far Eastern Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>New Delhi, Counsellor (Economic) and Director of Trade &amp; Investment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td>Guangzhou, Her Majesty\u2019s Consul-General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998 \u2013 1999<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head, China Hong Kong Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1997 \u2013 1998<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Section, Hong Kong Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1996 \u2013 1997<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head of Section, European Union Department (Internal)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1992 \u2013 1995<\/td>\n<td>Beijing, Second later First Secretary (Economic and Political)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1989 \u2013 1991<\/td>\n<td>Full time language training (Mandarin)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988 \u2013 1989<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Assistant Desk Officer, Middle East 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 Stephen Lillie has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Cyprus<\/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\/82513"}],"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=82513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}