Victoria Treadell

Her Excellency
Victoria Treadell
CMG MVO
High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Malaysia
Assumed office
2014
Preceded by Simon Featherstone
Personal details
Born (1959-11-04) 4 November 1959
Ipoh, Perak, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia)
Nationality British
Spouse(s) Alan Treadell
Occupation Diplomat

Victoria "Vicki" Marguerite Treadell CMG MVO (born 4 November 1959)[1] is the current British High Commissioner to Malaysia and has been in the posting since October 2014.[2] She is the former British High Commissioner to New Zealand and Samoa, and Governor of the Pitcairn Islands.[3]

She was born in Ipoh, Perak, Malaya (now Malaysia) to a Cantonese mother and a father of French-Dutch ancestry. Before her posting to New Zealand, she had held postings in Pakistan, India and Malaysia.[4]

She is the first woman who served as British High Commissioner to New Zealand.[5]

She was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1989 following a visit by The Queen to Malaysia,[6] and was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 2010.[7]

In addition, due to her interest in culture and arts, she has been one of the patrons of the Singapore-based British Theatre Playhouse since 2014, with regard to the plays that are produced in Malaysia.[8]

References

  1. ↑ TREADELL, Victoria Marguerite, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013
  2. ↑ Change of High Commissioner to Malaysia, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 25 June 2014
  3. ↑ "Our High Commissioner". British High Commission, Wellington. Archived from the original on 15 November 2010.
  4. ↑ "Foreign Office Press Release 10 September 2009". Archived from the original on 19 October 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
  5. ↑ "First Female British High Commissioner To NZ Named". guide2.co.nz (New Zealand Press Association). 11 September 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  6. ↑ "No. 51932". The London Gazette. 10 November 1989. p. 12995.
  7. ↑ "No. 59446". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2010. p. 3. corrected in "No. 59612". The London Gazette. 23 November 2010. p. 22521.
  8. ↑ "British Theatre Playhouse - Patrons - Professional theatre production company incorporated in Singapore in 2004 but is internationally focused with a strong British connection - SISTIC". Retrieved 23 March 2017.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
George Fergusson		 High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to New Zealand
2010–2014		 Succeeded by
Jonathan Sinclair
Governor of the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
2010–2014
Preceded by
Simon Featherstone		 High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Malaysia
2014–present		 Incumbent
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