Adam Wood

Adam Wood (2012)

Adam Kenneth Compton Wood (born March 13, 1955 ) is a former British diplomat and was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 2011 to 2016 .

Career

He attended the Royal Grammar School at High Wycombe and studied at Oriel College , Oxford .

From 1983 to 1986 Woods was Assistant to the UK Executive Director at the World Bank in Washington. In 1986 he became head of department in the Overseas Development Administration with responsibility for the European Development Fund . From 1988 he headed the British development program in Kenya, from 1993 to 1996 Woods was advisor to the Director General for External Relations at the EU in Brussels. For the next four years he represented the British Development Department in Bangkok with responsibility for Southeast Asia. In 2000 he returned to Brussels, where he was a Development Policy Advisor in the UK Permanent Mission. Wood's later career consisted of diplomatic duties in Africa, such as B. as British High Commissioner in Uganda from 2002 to 2005 and High Commissioner in Kenya from 2005 to 2008. Before leaving the diplomatic service in 2010, he was Africa Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office responsible for the embassies in Africa .

Wood was announced as Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man in November 2010 and sworn in on April 7, 2011. Richard Gozney succeeded him on May 27, 2016 .

Web links

• Biography on the page of the Government of the Isle of Man (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Queen names Adam Wood as new Isle of Man governor. In: BBC. November 16, 2010, accessed January 7, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Adam Wood is sworn is as Lieutenant Governor ( Memento from August 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )