Caroline Wilson (diplomat)
| Caroline Wilson CMG | |
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.jpg) Caroline Wilson at the Web Summit in Lisbon in 2017 | |
| Europe Director, Foreign & Commonwealth Office | |
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Assumed office 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Vijay Rangarajan |
| British Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macao | |
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In office 2012–2016 | |
| Preceded by | Andrew Seaton |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Heyn |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Caroline Elizabeth Wilson 12 August 1970 Wimbledon, London |
Caroline Elizabeth Wilson CMG (born 12 August 1970) is a British lawyer and diplomat who is Europe Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Career
Wilson was educated at Sevenoaks School, Downing College, Cambridge. She was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1993, then gained a degree in European Community law (licence spéciale en droit européen) at the Institute for European studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1995 and has served at Beijing, Brussels and Moscow and in various posts at the FCO.[1][2] She was "Consul General to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and Non-Resident Consul General to Macau" 2012–16.[3] She became Europe Director at the FCO in 2016.[2]
Wilson was appointed CMG in the 2016 New Year Honours.[4] She was called as a Bencher at the Middle Temple in 2013.[5]
References
- ↑ "Wilson, Caroline Elizabeth". Who's Who 2018. 1 December 2017.
- 1 2 "Caroline Wilson CMG". gov.uk.
- ↑ "Change of Her Majesty's Consul General to Hong Kong". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 21 March 2012.
- ↑ "No. 61450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2015. p. N4.
- ↑ "Masters of the Bench – Caroline Wilson CMG". Middle Temple.