Rosemary Thomas OBE (born 17 July 1964) is a British diplomat, and Ambassador to Belarus since 2009.
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She was born Rosemary O'Brien in Liverpool to a catholic family. She attended the Bellerive Girls' School (also known as the Bellerive Convent Grammar School), which was then a catholic girls' direct grant grammar school, and is now the Bellerive FCJ Catholic College, a comprehensive since 1983.
She attended the University of Leeds where she gained a BA in Russian.
She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1990.
From 1997-8 she was a Desk Officer at the Asia–Europe Meeting Summit, then from 1998-2001 was in the Russian Section of the Eastern Department. From 2001-3 she was Head of the Council of Europe Section in the Council of Europe Department (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - OCSE). From 2003-5 she was Head of the War Crimes Section in the International Organisations Department.
From 2006-7 she was the Head of Communications of the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine, based in Odessa.
From 2007-8 she was First Secretary of Counter Narcotics in Kabul, Afghanistan.
She became the British Ambassador to Belarus on 17 September 2009, based in Minsk. She replaced Dr Nigel Gould-Davies who had been there since 2007, and was appointed on 4 June 2009.[1]
The current President of Belarus is Alexander Lukashenko.[2] Belarus, like Ukraine, is not a member of the EU, but has much interest in becoming part of the EU.
She married Alan Howard Thomas in 1990. She is a member of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
She received the OBE in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
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| Preceded by Nigel Gould-Davies |
British Ambassador to Belarus 2009– |
Succeeded by Incumbent |