Stephen Wall
Sir Stephen Wall , GCMG , LVO (born January 1947 ) is a British diplomat.
Life
Stephen Wall attended Douai School and Selwyn College , Cambridge , and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1968.
He began at the Washington, DC Embassy and then joined the personal staff of Secretary of State David Owen and Lord Carrington . After a renewed activity in Washington, he was again active as Private Secretary in the State Department from 1988 to 1991 with Geoffrey Howe , John Major and Douglas Hurd and was then responsible for foreign policy issues with Prime Minister John Major until 1993.
He then went to Lisbon as ambassador and was British ambassador to the European Union from 1995 to 2000. From 2005 he was a member of the Advisory Board of University College London (UCL) and was its chairman from 2008 to 2014.
He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Birmingham . In 2014 he declared in public that he was gay.
Fonts
- A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- The official history of Britain and the European Community. / Volume II, From rejection to referendum, 1963-1975 . London: Routledge, 2013.
Web links
- Literature by and about Stephen Wall in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen Wall ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at UCL
- ↑ Gideon Rachman: "I can't go on denying who I am" , Interview, in: Financial Times , January 25, 2015, p. 3
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wall, Stephen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1947 |