Richard Lewington (diplomat)

Richard George Lewington (born 13 April 1948) is a retired British diplomat. He is currently Chief Technical Adviser for Tajikistan for the EU Border Management and Drug Action Programmes in Central Asia (BOMCA/CADAP) based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Born April 13 1948, Lewington entered the Foreign Office in 1967, before that department was merged into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office the next year. Over the next 28 years, after full time Russian language training, he served around the world, in Mongolia, Peru, the Soviet Union, Israel, and Yugoslavia, in addition to holding several positions in Whitehall.

In 1995, he was posted as Deputy High Commissioner to Malta. In 1999, he received his first posting as head of a diplomatic mission, as Ambassador to Kazakhstan and (non-resident) to the Kyrgyz Republic. In 2002, he left that position, before being posted to Ecuador the following year as Ambassador to Ecuador until his retirement from the Diplomatic Service at the start of 2007. cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.britishhighcommission.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1082828875309&a=KArticle&aid=1150454978916 | title = Change of Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador | publisher = British High Commission, New Zealand | accessdate = 2007-07-09] He has a home in Dorset, where he is a trustee of the Dorset Expeditionary Society and a life member of the Society of Dorset Men. cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/articles/ArticlesDetail.asp?ID=596 | title = Dorset thoughts from Abroad | publisher = Dorset Life | accessdate = 2007-07-09]

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