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Change of Chargé d’Affaires in British Embassy Venezuela: Colin Dick OBE

Mr Colin Dick OBE has been appointed Chargé d’Affaires in British Embassy Venezuela in succession to Ms Becks Buckingham OBE.

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Mr Colin Dick OBE has been appointed British Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at the British Embassy in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Mr Dick will take up his appointment during August 2023. He takes over from Ms Becks Buckingham OBE, who has been serving as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim since August 2021.

Curriculum vitae

Full name: Colin Dick OBE

Dates Role
2020 Deputy Director, Cabinet Secretariat, Cabinet Office
2019 Deputy Director, Department for Exiting the EU
2017 Head, EU Exit Strategy Department
2013 Deputy High Commissioner, later Chargé D’Affaires, to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean
2010 Deputy Head, Human Resources Directorate
2004 First Secretary, Head of Trade and Economics, Brazil
2001 Second Secretary, Economics and Inward Investment, Singapore
1999 Deputy Head of Trade Policy, EU Department
1997 Private Secretary, FCO Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
1990 Joined Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)

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Published 3 July 2023