Francois Gordon, Esq, CMG, CVO

Career: diplomat; entered HM Dip Serv 1979, asst desk offr EC Dept (External) FCO 1979-80, second later first sec Luanda 1981-83, first sec UK Delgn to Conf on Disarmament Geneva 1983-88, head Finance Section UN Dept FCO 1988-89, first sec (political) Nairobi 1990-92; FCO: head Lusophone Africa Section Southern African Dept 1992-94, asst head Repub of Ireland Dept 1994-95, head Drugs, Crime and Terrorism Dept 1996 (asst head 1995-96); ambass Algiers 1996-99, on secondment RCDS Algiers 2000-01, ambass to Ivory Coast 2001-04, high cmmr to Uganda 2005-08, European strategy advsr Kent Police 2009-