Leigh Turner

Leigh Turner (2015)

Robert Leigh Turner (* 1958 ) is a British diplomat . He has been the British Ambassador to Austria since 2016, and from 2008 to 2012 he was the British Ambassador to Ukraine .

Life

Leigh Turner grew up in Nigeria , Exeter , Lesotho and Swaziland . After the Grammar School in Manchester , he attended Downing College at the University of Cambridge from 1976 to 1979 .

He then worked in the Department for Transport and the Department of the Environment , from 1983 he worked for the Foreign Office in Vienna (1984 to 1987), Moscow (1992 to 1995) and Berlin (1998 to 2002), among others . From 2006 he was Director of Overseas Territories in London , and in 2008 he became Ambassador of the British Embassy in Ukraine. From 2012 he was the British Consul General in Istanbul .

On August 29, 2016, he succeeded Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque as Ambassador to the British Embassy in Vienna and as Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations in Vienna.

Leigh Turner is the father of two children.

Awards

• 2014: Companion des Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna . Article dated December 17, 2015, accessed March 17, 2019.
2. ^ ^{A b} Foreign Office: About Leigh Turner . Retrieved March 17, 2019.
3. ^ Forum Alpbach: Leigh Turner . Retrieved March 17, 2019.
4. ^ ^{A b} Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna: Leigh Turner CMG . Retrieved March 17, 2019.
5. ↑ orf.at: New British Ambassador in Vienna . Article dated August 21, 2016, accessed March 17, 2019.
6. ^ The London Gazette, Supplement 60728 . Edition of December 31, 2013, accessed March 17, 2019.

predecessor	Office	successor
Tim Barrow	British Ambassador to Ukraine 2008–2012	Simon Smith
Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque	British Ambassador to Austria 2016–