{"id":85590,"date":"2017-10-20T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bbb540193335ba66593ee1d26e2f1495"},"modified":"2017-10-20T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:02:32","slug":"press-release-change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85590","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change of British High Commissioner to Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Ms Kate Airey OBE has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia in succession to Ms Jo Lomas who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Ms Airey will take up her appointment during January 2018.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"curriculum-vitae\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Full name:<\/td>\n<td>Kate Airey OBE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Married to:<\/td>\n<td>Duncan Low<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Children:<\/td>\n<td>Two<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2015 \u2013 present<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Head, Whitehall Nigeria Unit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2015<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head, Ebola Task Force<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2014 \u2013 2015<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Deputy Head, UK Ebola Response<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2014<\/td>\n<td>Freetown, Deputy High Commissioner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010 \u2013 2014<\/td>\n<td>Rome, British Embassy, Prosperity Team Leader<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007 \u2013 2010<\/td>\n<td>Abuja, British High Commission, Head, Political Section<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005 \u2013 2007<\/td>\n<td>FCO, Africa Energy Adviser, Climate Change and Energy Group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004 \u2013 2005<\/td>\n<td>Shell International Oil Products Ltd, Global Oil Products Marketing Manager<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002 \u2013 2004<\/td>\n<td>Shell International, Team Leader, Internal Management Consultancy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000 \u2013 2001<\/td>\n<td>Shell UK Ltd, Marketing Manager<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999 \u2013 2000<\/td>\n<td>Oxfam, Press Officer<\/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 postal-address\" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">For journalists <\/span>\n<\/p>\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\">Newsdesk <\/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>Ms Kate Airey OBE has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia<\/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\/85590"}],"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=85590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}