Foreign Office Career:

Sept 2007 HM Ambassador, Baghdad

2006 – 2007 Ambassador at Large for the Sudan Peace Process (and UK Special Representative)

2006 – 2007 Snr Academic Member, Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford

2002 – 2006 HM Ambassador, Amman

1998 – 2002 Head, Near East and North Africa Dept., FCO

1994 – 1998 Deputy Head of Mission, Budapest

1990 – 1993 Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary

1989 – 1990 Assistant Head, European Community Department

1985 – 1989 First Secretary, Washington

1983 – 1985 Middle East Analyst, Cabinet Office

1980 – 1983 Second Secretary, Kuwait

1978 – 1979 Language student Lebanon

1978 – 1979 Second Secretary , Near East and North Africa Dept., FCO

1977 Joined Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)