Career
He has been working for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) since 1973. Before becoming a colonial administrator, he was posted to many countries around the world, and also spent time working in England. The following is a list of jobs he has had with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the past 30 years:
1973-1974: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Central and Southern African Department)
1974-1974: United Kingdom Mission Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Geneva (Second Secretary)
1974-1975: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department)
1975-1977: United Kingdom Delegation MBFR, Vienna (First Secretary)
1977-1981: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Permanent Under Secretary"s Department)
1981-1983: Cairo (Head of Chancery)
1983-1984: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Personnel Operations Department)
1985-1986: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Assistant Head, Personnel Policy Department)
1986-1988: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Counsellor on loan to Cabinet Office)
1989-1989: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Career Development Attachment, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen)
1989-1991: Bonn (Counsellor)
1992-1995: Ottawa (Deputy High Commissioner)
1995-1998: Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Head, African Department (Southern), also Commissioner British Indian Ocean Territory, 1996–1998)
1998-2001: Dar es Salaam (High Commissioner)
2001-2002: Secondment to Standard Chartered Bank
2002-2005: Governor and President of the Executive Council, Cayman Islands.
