Peter Wilson (diplomat)

Peter Michael Alexander Wilson CMG (born 31 March 1968) is a senior British diplomat who has been appointed to be Ambassador to the Netherlands from August 2017.

Wilson is a son of Lord Wilson of Tillyorn. He was educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford. He also has a MPA degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1992 and was posted to Beijing where he studied Mandarin at the University of International Business and Economics. He served at the British embassy in Beijing 1995–98. In early 1999 he was appointed to the cabinet of Sir Leon Brittan, who was a Vice-President of the European Commission. After Brittan resigned with the rest of the Santer Commission in March 1999, Wilson continued as First Secretary at the UK representation to the EU. He was head of the Strategic Policy Team at the FCO 2003–04; Political Counsellor at Islamabad 2005–06 and at Beijing 2007–10; and director, Asia Pacific, at the FCO 2010–13. He was deputy permanent representative to the United Nations (with the rank of Ambassador) 2013–17.^[1] In January 2017 the FCO announced his appointment as Ambassador to the Netherlands.^[2]

Wilson was appointed CMG in the 2013 Birthday Honours "for services to strengthening British foreign policy in Asia".^[3]

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