Leigh Turner
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(Robert)Leigh Turner is a UK Government civil servant who is Director of Overseas Territories[1] at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is also Commissioner for both the British Indian Ocean Territory[2] and the British Antarctic Territory,[3] equivalent to non-resident governor for both territories.
Born in 1958, he graduated from Cambridge University in 1979 and joined the Civil Service as an administrative trainee the same year. After working in the Departments of Transport and Environment, and the Treasury, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983 and has since had postings in Austria, Russia and Germany. [4]
Leigh Turner is listed for the first time in the 2008 edition of Who's Who (UK), under his full name of Robert Leigh Turner.[5] Whilst on unpaid leave, between 2002 and 2006, he wrote travel articles for the Financial Times, The Boston Globe and other newspapers.[6][7][8][9][10]
[edit] References
- ^ UK FCO "Directory"
- ^ UK FCO "BIOT Country Profile"
- ^ UK FCO "Directory"
- ^ TURNER, (Robert) Leigh’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 7 May 2008
- ^ Daily Telegraph 5 December 2007 "Who's Who? Just don't mention the coup"
- ^ Financial Times 1.8.03 Behind Every Great Woman
- ^ Boston Globe 25.06.06 A temple to faith, time and resolve
- ^ Berliner Morgenpost 29.02.04 Diplomat und Hausmann
- ^ Financial Times Weekly Magazine 19.03.05 All the Rage in Lech
- ^ Die Welt 17.7.04 Im Dienst Ihrer Majestät
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| Preceded by Tony Crombie |
Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory July 2006 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
