Education
Dianna Patricia Melrose was educated at Street Catherine"s School, Bramley, King"s College London (Bachelor, Spanish & French) and the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.
Dianna Patricia Melrose was educated at Street Catherine"s School, Bramley, King"s College London (Bachelor, Spanish & French) and the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.
She worked as a Spanish interpreter in the City of London, then briefly for the British Council, before joining Oxfam in 1980. She was Policy Director of Oxfam Great Britain, 1993-1999. She then joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) as Deputy Head, then Head, of its Policy Planning Staff.
She was seconded to the Department for International Development (Department for International Development) in 2002, first as head of its Extractive Industries Unit (an initiative by Prime Minister Tony Blair aimed at ensuring that the people of oil-, gasand minerals-producing countries benefit from the revenues) and then as head of Department for International Development"s International Trade Department.
In 2006 she returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as head of its European Union Enlargement and Southeast Europe group before being posted as Ambassador to Cuba in 2008. She left Cuba in July 2012 and was appointed High Commissioner to Tanzania from February 2013.
