Frances Guy

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Frances Guy (born 1 February 1959) is a British former ambassador who is UN Women's representative in Iraq.

Career

Frances Mary Guy was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and studied international relations at Aberdeen University, the Bologna Center of Johns Hopkins University, and Carleton University, Ottawa. She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1985 and served at Khartoum, Bangkok and Addis Ababa as well as at the FCO. She was Ambassador to Yemen 2001–04, head of the FCO's Engaging the Islamic World group 2004–06, and Ambassador to Lebanon 2006–11. She was adviser on the Middle East to the Foreign Secretary 2011–12, including a role as the Foreign Secretary's envoy to the Syrian opposition.^[1] Since 2012 she has been the representative for UN Women in Iraq.^[2]

Frances Guy is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Middle East & Mediterranean Studies Programme at King's College London^[3] and is a trustee of the Alexandria Trust for education in the Arab region.^[4]

References

GUY, Frances Mary, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013

↑ Britain in secret talks with Syrian rebels, The Independent, London, 19 November 2011
↑ Journalist and woman: A double challenge, United Nations Iraq, 2013
↑ MEMS scholar given UN role in Iraq, King's College London, 5 July 2012
↑ Our Trustees – Frances Guy, Alexandria Trust

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Victor Henderson	Ambassador to the Yemeni Republic 2001–2004	Succeeded by Michael Gifford
Preceded by James Watt	Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon 2006–2011	Succeeded by Thomas Fletcher

Persondata
Name	Guy, Frances Mary
Alternative names
Short description	British ambassador, UN Women representative
Date of birth	1 February 1959
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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