Britain name new High Commissioner to Nigeria

Britain name new High Commissioner to Nigeria

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Mr Paul Arkwright has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria in succession to Sir Andrew Pocock KCMG, who will be retiring from the Diplomatic Service. Mr Arkwright will take up his appointment during September.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Full name:     Paul Thomas Arkwright
Married to:     Patricia Anne Holland
Children:     One son & one daughter
2013 – present     FCO, Director, Multilateral Policy
2009 – 2013     The Hague, Her Majesty’s Ambassador
2006 – 2009     FCO, Head, Counter-Proliferation Department
2006     FCO Participant in Higher Command and Staff Course, Defence Academy Shrivenham
2001 – 2005     UKDEL NATO, Political Counsellor
1998 – 2001     Paris, First Secretary Political
1997 – 1998     Secondment to Quai d’Orsay, Paris, UN & International Organisations department
1993 – 1997     UKMis New York, First Secretary Political
1991 – 1993     FCO, Head of Conventional Arms Section Non Proliferation & Defence Department
1988 – 1991     British Military Government Berlin (later British Embassy, Berlin Office), Second Secretary Political
1987 – 1988     FCO, Desk Officer, Hong Kong Department
1986     Joined FCO