- Leigh Turner
(Robert) Leigh Turner is a
UK Government civil servant who became British Ambassador to Ukraine, resident in Kiev, on 14 June 2008 [British Embassy Kiev [http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1089130775527] ] [Day Ukraine [http://www.day.kiev.ua/203314] ]Leigh Turner's previous job was as Director of Overseas Territories [UK FCO [http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029395231&a=Collection&aid=1013618514448 "Directory"] ] at the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office . He was also Commissioner for both the British Indian Ocean Territory [UK FCO [http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1018952687077 "BIOT Country Profile"] ] and the British Antarctic Territory, [UK FCO [http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029395231&a=Collection&aid=1019501166372 "Directory"] ] equivalent to non-resident governor for both territories.Born in 1958, he graduated from
Cambridge University in 1979 and joined the Civil Service as an administrative trainee the same year. After working in the Departments of Transport and Environment, and the Treasury, he joined theForeign and Commonwealth Office in 1983 and has since had postings inAustria ,Russia andGermany . [TURNER, (Robert) Leigh’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U245891, accessed 7 May 2008] ]Leigh Turner is listed for the first time in the 2008 edition of
Who's Who (UK) , under his full name of Robert Leigh Turner. [Daily Telegraph 5 December 2007 [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/portal/2007/12/05/ftwho105.xml "Who's Who? Just don't mention the coup"] ] Whilst on unpaid leave, between 2002 and 2006, he wrote travel articles for the Financial Times, The Boston Globe and other newspapers [Financial Times 1.8.03 [http://search.ft.com/nonFtArticle?id=030801005351 Behind Every Great Woman] ] [Boston Globe 02.09.07 [http://www.boston.com/travel/getaways/europe/articles/2007/09/02/history_in_the_tropics/ History in the Tropics] ] [Berliner Morgenpost 29.02.04 [http://www.morgenpost.de/content/2004/02/29/beruf/662659.html Diplomat und Hausmann] ] [Financial Times Weekly Magazine 19.03.05 [http://search.ft.com/nonFtArticle?id=050319001283 All the Rage in Lech] ] [Die Welt 17.7.04 [http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article328070/Im_Dienst_Ihrer_Majestaet.html Im Dienst Ihrer Majestät] ] and some fiction [Leigh Turner writing site [http://sites.google.com/site/leighturnerwriting/] ]References
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