Foreign and Commonwealth Office
June 15
13:58
2016
Dr John Freeman CMG has been appointed Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands in succession to Mr Peter Beckingham, who will be retiring from the Diplomatic Service. Dr Freeman will take up his appointment during October 2016.
Curriculum Vitae
| Full name: | John Freeman CMG |
| Married to: | Corinna Freeman |
| Children: | Two |
| 2012 present | Buenos Aires, Her Majestys Ambassador |
| 2011 | Full time language training (Spanish) |
| 2006 2011 | Secondment, Deputy Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
| 2004 2006 | Her Majestys Ambassador for Multilateral Arms Control [from 2005] and Her Majestys Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Conference on Disarmament [from 2004], Geneva |
| 2001 2004 | Brussels, Deputy Permanent Representative at NATO and Alternate Representative on the North Atlantic Council |
| 1997 2001 | Her Majestys Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN agencies in Vienna |
| 1994 1997 | Singapore, Deputy High Commissioner and Commercial and Economic Counsellor |
| 1994 | Attached to the Trade Promotion division of the Department of Trade and Industry |
| 1991 1994 | FCO, Deputy Head of the Eastern (later Central) European Department, and, secondly, as Head of the Security Co-ordination Department |
| 1989 1991 | Senate Liaison, British Military Government in Berlin, and subsequently Head of the Political Section in the Berlin Office of the British Embassy in Germany |
| 1986 1989 | FCO, Head of South Africa Section |
| 1983 1986 | Member, UK Delegation to Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe meetings in Helsinki and Stockholm (at the Conference on Disarmament in Europe) |
| 1977 1983 | Ministry of Defence, Various appointments |
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