FCO career:

1980 - Joined FCO

1982 – 1984 UKRep Brussels, then Second (later First) Secretary (EC Affairs), BE Brussels

1984 – 1986 Desk Officer, Southern Africa Dept, FCO

1986 – 1988 Deputy Head, Policy Planners, FCO

1988 – 1992 First Secretary (Political), BE Paris

1993 – 1996 Deputy Head of Mission and Consul-General, BE Stockholm

1997 – 2001 Counsellor (Financial and Economic), BE Paris

2001 – 2002 Senior Associate Member, St Antony’s College, Oxford (publication: ‘France and the Politics of EMU, 2002’)

2002 – 2004 Head of Environment Policy Department, FCO

2004 – 2006 Head of Climate Change and Energy Group, FCO