{"id":83025,"date":"2017-07-27T14:11:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=117b4720c7c95badf47fb31a0cda42cf"},"modified":"2017-07-27T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T14:11:49","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-afghanistan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83025","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Sir Nicholas Kay KCMG has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in succession to Mr Dominic Jermey CVO OBE.  Sir Nicholas will take up his appointment in August 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name:<\/td>\n<td>Sir Nicholas Kay KCMG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to:<\/td>\n<td>Susan Kay<\/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>2016 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>United Kingdom Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013 \u2013 2016<\/td>\n<td>Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012 \u2013 2013<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Director Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2012<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Ambassador to the Republic of Sudan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006 \u2013 2007<\/td>\n<td>UK Regional Co-ordinator Southern Afghanistan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002 \u2013 2006<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head of Mission, Madrid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000 \u2013 2002<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head, Policy Planning Staff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1997 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head of Mission, Havana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1995 \u2013 1997<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, Pakistan and Afghanistan Section, South Asian Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1988 \u2013 1990<\/td>\n<td>Founder, Leading Edge Training Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1980 \u2013 1994<\/td>\n<td>English language teacher in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Brazil, Spain and the UK<\/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 [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/foreign-and-commonwealth-office?trk=biz-companies-cym<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Nicholas Kay KCMG has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan<\/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\/83025"}],"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=83025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}