- Richard Gozney
Sir Richard Hugh Turton Gozney KCMG, born
21 July 1951 , is a British careerdiplomat . He has been Governor andCommander in Chief ofBermuda sinceDecember 12 ,2007 [Smith, Tim. [http://www.royalgazette.com/siftology.royalgazette/Article/article.jsp?articleId=7d7c64a30030000§ionId=60 The Royal Gazette] : Breaking News: New Governor sworn in. 12 December 2007. Accessed 13 December 2007] .Background and education
The son of Thomas Leonard Gozney and his wife Elizabeth Margaret Lilian Gardiner, Gozney was educated at
Magdalen College School ,Oxford , andSt Edmund Hall, Oxford . He took a BA (Hons) degree inGeology in 1973. In 1970, between school and the University, he briefly taught at a school inKenya .He married Diana Edwina Baird on 24 April 1982 and has two sons; James, born 7 April 1987, and Alexander, born 25 February 1990.
Career summary
*1973 - 1974:
Foreign and Commonwealth Office desk officer forSomalia andEthiopia
*1974 - 1978: British EmbassyJakarta , Third and later Second Secretary
*1978 - 1981: British EmbassyBuenos Aires , Third and later First Secretary
*1981 - 1984: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Head of Section forNATO nuclear arms control
*1984 - 1988:Madrid , Head of Chancery and Political Section
*1989 - 1990: Foreign and Commonwealth Office,Private Secretary to theSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
*1990 - 1993: Foreign and Commonwealth Office,Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
*1993 - 1996: BritishHigh Commissioner toSwaziland
*1996 - 1997: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Head of Security Policy Department
*1998 - 2000:Cabinet Office , Chief of the Assessments Staff
*2000 - 2004: British Ambassador toIndonesia
*2004 - 2007: BritishHigh Commissioner toNigeria , Her Majesty's Non-Resident Ambassador to theRepublic of Benin and theRepublic of Equatorial Guinea
*2007 - present:Governor andCommander-in-Chief ofBermuda Honours
*1993: Companion of the
Order of St Michael and St George
*2006: Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St GeorgePublication
*"Gibraltar and the EC: Aspects of the Relationship" (Royal Institute of International Affairs Discussion Paper, 1993)
References
*"Who's Who 2007" (A. & C. Black, London, 2007)----
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