David Stuart Broucher

David Stuart Broucher (born October 5, 1944 ) is a former British diplomat .

Life

Broucher is the son of Betty Elam Jordan and Clifford Broucher, from Ewenny, Glamorgan . He attended Manchester Grammar School, then studied at Trinity Hall , Cambridge , and on November 25, 1971, married Marion Monika Gill. Their son Nicholas David was born in 1972. In 1966 Broucher joined the Foreign Service. From 1966 to 1968 he was employed in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office . From 1968 to 1972 he was employed by the British military command in Berlin and from 1972 to 1975 he was seconded to the government cabinet. In 1973 he was promoted to Secretary of the Embassy, ​​First Class.

On September 1, 1975 Broucher was appointed consul in Prague , where he worked until 1978. From 1978 to 1983 he was again employed in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 1983 to 1985 he was the UK Government's permanent representative to the European Economic Community . From 1985 to 1989 he was counselor in Jakarta . From 1989 to 1993 he was counselor for the trade mission in Bonn . From 1994 to 1997 October 1997 he was employed again in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From October 1997 to November 2001 he was ambassador to the Czech Republic . From 2001 until his transfer to the retired , in 2004, he led the British delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva . During this time the British delegation chaired the preparatory committee of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Review Conference of the Convention on Biological Weapons and the First Committee of the UN General Assembly.

As part of an investigation led by Brian Hutton into the death of David Kelly , Broucher reported that Kelly had told him in Geneva in February 2003 , when asked what would happen in the event of the Iraq war , that he might then be found dead in the forest . From 2005 to November 2006 Broucher was the personal advisor on questions relating to Traian Băsescu 's accession to the EU . He has been a Fellow at the University of Southampton since 2006 . He is currently advising the government in Skopje on joining the European Union in cooperation with the University of Birmingham .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 46736, HMSO, London, November 11, 1975, p. 14223 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).
2. ↑ The Independent , August 21, 2003, [1]
3. ↑ Debrett's People Of Today [2]

predecessor	Office	successor
Michael St Edmund Burton	British Ambassador to the Czech Republic 1997–2001	Anne Fyfe Pringle