Background
The son of a senior Royal Air Force officer who flew Spitfires in World World War II, Lyne refused to go to Marlborough College because "there were no doors on the lavatories", so instead attended Eton College on a bursary.
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Roderic Lyne
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University of Leeds; Eton College.
Career
He went on to read history at Leeds University, which he says was the only university to offer him an interview, on account of his poor A-level grades. Nevertheless, he was a good undergraduate student. Rod Lyne joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) in 1970, and went to study at the Army School of Languages in 1971.
His first posting was as Third Secretary to Moscow in 1972.
He was sent to Dakar in 1974 and returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1976. He was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington in 1979.
Lyne was posted as First Secretary to UKMIS New York in 1982 where he served until 1986, when he was seconded to Chatham House in London. From 1987 to 1990 he was Counsellor and Head of Chancery at the British Embassy in Moscow.
Between 1990 and 1993 Lyne was Head of the Soviet and then Eastern Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Foreign three years from 1993, Rod Lyne was seconded to 10 Downing Street as Private Secretary to Prime Minister John Major, advising on foreign affairs, defence and Northern Ireland.
From 1997 to 2000 Lyne served as Permanent Representative, UKMIS Geneva before finishing his diplomatic career as Her Majesty Ambassador to Russia. On his London postings, he usually commuted to Whitehall by bicycle. Sir Roderic Lyne is now Vice-Chairman at Chatham House where, from 1986 to 1987, he was a Visiting Research Fellow.
He is an advisor to JPMorgan Chase, who have been chosen to operate the Trade Bank of Iraq, which will give banks access to the financial system of Iraq He was a special adviser to Boite Postale, which currently has major interests in Iraq.
He is a non-executive director of Petropavlovsk plc (formerly Peter Hambro Mining). Several people have commented that he is the toughest inquisitor on the committee.
He currently sits on the Advisory Council of the Front Row Group of Companies Limited.
Achievements
Membership
He is a member of the Board of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce. The Board of Governors of Kingston University. And is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation.
From 2005-2007 he was a member of the Task Force of the Trilateral Commission on Russia.
He was a member of the Chilcot inquiry into circumstances leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, having been appointed to the Privy Council in 2009.
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British