Mr Charles Crawford, CMG

Career: HM Dip Serv: Indonesia Desk FCO 1979-81, second then first sec (press/info) Belgrade 1981-84, Civil Aviation Desk then speechwriter FCO 1984-87, first sec (political) Pretoria/Cape Town 1987-91, Soviet then Eastern Dept FCO 1991-93, political cnsllr Moscow 1993-96, ambass to Bosnia and Herzegovina 1996-98, Weatherhead Center for Int Affrs Harvard Univ 1998-99, dep political dir FCO 1999-2000, ambass to Fed Repub of Yugoslavia 2001-03, ambass to Poland 2003-07; currently writer, mediator, trainer and conslt; contrib: BBC, The Independent, The Guardian, National Review Online, DIPLOMAT magazine, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; fndr memb ADRg Ambassadors LLP 2010