Education
Philip Robert Barton gained a Bachelor degree from Warwick University and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics.
Philip Robert Barton gained a Bachelor degree from Warwick University and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics.
He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) in 1986 and served at Caracas, New Delhi, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and on secondment to the Cabinet Office and as a private secretary to the Prime Minister. He was deputy High Commissioner to Cyprus 2000-2004. Deputy Governor of Gibraltar 2005-2008 (with a spell as acting Governor in 2006).
Director, South Asia, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 2008-2009.
Director, Foreign Policy and Afghanistan, and Pakistan Company-ordinator at the Cabinet Office 2009-2011. Deputy head of mission at Washington, District of Columbia 2011-2014.
And was appointed High Commissioner to Pakistan from January 2014. He left Islamabad at the end of his assignment on 11 February 2016, and was to transfer to another Diplomatic Service appointment.
Anti-tobacco movements in Pakistan and in the United Kingdom blamed Philip Barton for his participation in a delegation led by British American Tobacco in 2015 to complain about the Pakistani government"s decision to increase the size of health warnings on cigarette packs.
"Inside sources at the Health Ministry confirmed the participation of the British High Commissioner in the meeting as a member of the delegation.".