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Revision as of 21:49, 11 January 2009
Derek Plumbly (born May 1948) is a British diplomat who has served throughout the Arab world.
Early life
Plumbly was born in New Forest and studied politics and economics at the University of Oxford. Wanting to see the world after schooling, Plumbly signed up for the Voluntary Service Overseas, and taught for a year and a half in Sukur, a town in Pakistan's Sindh province.
Plumbly went on to study Arabic, first in Shemlan, Lebanon, where he lived with a family for a year and a half, and then at the University of Jordan with the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war.
Timeline of career
- Second secretary in the Chancery at Jeddah (1975-1977)
- First secretary in Cairo (1977-1980)
- FCO Desk Officer for the Middle East Department (1982-1984)
- Deputy head of mission in Riyadh (1988-1992)
- FCO director for the Middle East and North Africa (1990s)
- Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2000-2003)
- Ambassador to Egypt (2003-2007)
- Chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (2008-)[1]
References
- Nkrumah, Gamal (2005-08-10). "Sir Derek Plumbly: Regional affiliations, and more". Al-Ahram. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
- ^ "UK Plumbly appointed as head of Sudan's peace monitoring body". Sudan Tribune. 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
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