Hamish Daniel

Hamish St. Clair Daniel (* 1953 ) is a British diplomat .

Career

Hamish worked in a total of nine different countries in ten different offices for the British Foreign Service. He was second secretary at the British Embassy in Sudan . While on his post in Yemen , he met his future wife, the Australian Heather Bull, who ran an aid program for the British consulate for Somali refugees there.

At the time of the collapse of the Indonesian dictatorship under Suharto in 1998, Daniel was the first secretary of the British embassy in Jakarta . East Timor , which was occupied by Indonesia until 1999, was granted independence on May 20, 2002 and the UK office in the state capital Dili was upgraded to an embassy. Daniel became the first British ambassador to the new country. In 2003 he was replaced here by Tina Redshaw .

From 2004 to 2008 Daniel was the UK's Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi and Director of Trade and Investment in Pakistan . After the end of his service, he retired and went to his wife's homeland, where the couple now dedicated themselves to raising cattle on a ranch. Daniel received Australian citizenship on January 26, 2012.

Awards

• Member of the Order of the British Empire (1992)
• Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2004).
• Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} British Diplomats Directory :: Part 1 of 4 , p. 129 , accessed on May 10, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Lee Gailer: Road to Amamoor; Former British Diplomat Now Kandanga Bush Fire Brigade Member , Gympie Times, The Qld., January 28, 2012 , accessed May 10, 2020.
3. ↑ Chris Hurford and Margareta Wahlstrom: OCHA and the Timor Crisis, 1999 - An Independent Study for OCHA , November 2001 , accessed May 10, 2020.
4. ↑ L′Orient - Le Jour: Des opposants timorais se réfugient à l'ambassade de Grande-Bretagne en Indonésie , April 22, 1998 , accessed on May 10, 2020.
5. ↑ British Parliament: Written Answers: Thursday 9th May 2002, East Timor , accessed 10 May 2020.
6. ^ The Statesman's Yearbook 2004: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World. limited preview in Google Book search.
7. ↑ Does your MP represent you ?: Ambassadors: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question - answered on 23rd October 2002. , accessed on May 10, 2020.
8. ^ British Government: British Ambassador to Cambodia: Tina Redshaw
9. ↑ 1992 Birthday Honors
10. ↑ BBC: 2004 New Year Honors, Diplomatic service and overseas list , December 31, 2003 , accessed May 10, 2020.

predecessor	Office	successor
-	British Ambassador for East Timor 2002–2003	Tina Redshaw