Alan Munro (diplomat)

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Sir Alan Gordon Munro , KCMG (born August 17, 1935 ) is a former British diplomat who was ambassador to Algeria from 1984 to 1987 and ambassador to Saudi Arabia between 1989 and 1993 .

Life

Alan Gordon Munro is the son of Sir Gordon Munro and his second wife Lilian Muriel Beit, daughter of the financier, art collector and philanthropist Otto Beit . After attending Wellington College , he served in the 4th / 7th Dragoon Guards , a regiment of the Royal Dragoon Guards, between 1953 and 1955 . Subsequently, he began in 1955 to study at Clare College of the University of Cambridge , which he in 1958 with a Master of Arts graduated (MA). Then he joined in 1958 in the diplomatic service (HM Diplomatic Service) Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign and Commonwealth Office ) a. In the following years he found numerous uses at diplomatic missions abroad and in the Foreign Ministry. After completing a course for the Arabic language at the Middle East Center for Arab Studies (MECAS) in Beirut between 1958 and 1960 , he then worked at the Embassy in Lebanon from 1960 to 1962 and, in the meantime, at the Embassy in Kuwait in 1961 .

After Munro had worked in the Foreign Ministry between 1963 and 1965, he was then employed at the embassy in Libya , which was initially in Benghazi and from 1966 in Tripoli . After his return, he worked again in the Foreign Ministry between 1968 and 1973 and then moved to the Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro . Here he was first consul for trade affairs from 1973 to 1974 and then consul general between 1974 and 1977. After his return, he took over the post of Head of the East Africa Department in the Foreign Ministry from 1977 to 1978 , then between January and September 1979 as Head of the Middle East Department and from 1979 to 1981 as Head of the Personnel Affairs Department.

Then Alan Munro in 1981 the Ministry of Defense (Ministry of Defense) seconded, where he was until 1983 Regional Director for the Middle East. In 1984 he became Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his services . As successor to Benjamin Strachan , he became ambassador to Algeria in 1984 and remained in this post until he was replaced by Patrick Eyers in 1987. From 1987 to 1989 he was Deputy Under-Secretary of State and Head of the Africa and Middle East Department (Deputy Under-Secretary of State , Middle East / Africa) before he last replaced Sir Stephen Egerton as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in 1989 . He remained in this post until he retired in 1993 and was then replaced by Sir David Gore-Booth . In 1990 he was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) and has since had the addition of Sir .

Alan Munro has been married to Rosemary Grania Bacon since 1962.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alan Munro's father, Sir Gordon Munro, was first married to Lady Diana Lucy Baldwin from 1919 to 1934, a daughter of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Lucy Ridsdale Baldwin.
  2. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 647
  3. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 965
  4. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 957
  5. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 1006
  6. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 622
  7. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 917
  8. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats, p. 814
personal data
SURNAME Munro, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Munro, Alan Gordon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1935