{"id":84295,"date":"2017-09-13T10:50:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T10:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=85a91fcf015bd615f6168f403aff555e"},"modified":"2017-09-13T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T10:50:58","slug":"press-release-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-non-resident-ambassador-to-the-republic-of-congo-dr-john-murton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84295","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of Congo: Dr John Murton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr John Murton has been appointed Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo in succession to Mr Graham Zebedee. Dr Murton will take up his appointment during September 2017.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n

Full name: Dr John Evan Murton<\/p>\n

Married to: Zoe Ellen Murton<\/p>\n

Children: 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2013 to the present<\/td>\nNairobi, Deputy High Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010 to 2013<\/td>\nForeign & Commonwealth Office, Head, East Asia and Pacific Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007 to 2010<\/td>\nPort Louis, British High Commissioner & Her Majesty\u2019s non-resident Ambassador to Madagascar and the Comoros<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004 to 2007<\/td>\nNATO, Deputy Director, Secretary General\u2019s Private Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002 to 2004<\/td>\nTokyo, First Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000 to 2002<\/td>\nTokyo, Second Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998 to 2000<\/td>\nLanguage training (Japanese)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997 to 1998<\/td>\nForeign & Commonwealth Office Desk Officer, Conflict Prevention, UN Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nJoined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Further information<\/h3>\n

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\n Newsdesk <\/span>
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Dr John Murton is appointed Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo.<\/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\/84295"}],"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=84295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}