Dianna Melrose

Dianna Melrose

Dianna Melrose (born 24 June 1952) is a British diplomat who has been appointed to be High Commissioner to Tanzania from early 2013.

She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, King's College London (BA, Spanish & French) and the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. She worked as a Spanish interpreter in the City of London, then briefly for the British Council, before joining Oxfam in 1980. She was Policy Director of Oxfam GB, 1993–99. She then joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as Deputy Head, then Head, of its Policy Planning Staff. She was seconded to the Department for International Development (DFID) in 2002, first as head of its Extractive Industries Unit (an initiative by Prime Minister Tony Blair aimed at ensuring that the people of oil-, gas- and minerals-producing countries benefit from the revenues) and then as head of DFID's International Trade Department. In 2006 she returned to the FCO as head of its EU Enlargement and Southeast Europe group before being posted as Ambassador to Cuba in 2008. She left Cuba in July 2012 and has been appointed British High Commissioner to Tanzania, to take up the post on February or March 2013.^[1]

Publications

• The Great Health Robbery: Baby Milk and Medicines in Yemen, Oxfam, Oxford, 1981. ISBN 0855980540
• Bitter Pills: Medicines and the Third World Poor, Oxfam, Oxford, 1982. ISBN 0855980656
• Nicaragua: The threat of a good example?, Oxfam, Oxford, 1985. ISBN 0855980702

References

• MELROSE, Dianna Patricia, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; accessed 24 May 2012
• Interview with Dianna Melrose, UK ambassador to Cuba, International Journal of Cuban Studies (Online), ISSN 1756-347X, 27 June 2009