HE Mr Khaled Al-Duwaisan, GCVO

Career: Kuwaiti diplomat; researcher Miny of Foreign Affairs 1970-71, diplomatic attaché 1971-72, third sec 1972-74, second sec 1974-76, joined Embassy of Kuwait in Washington DC 1975, first sec 1976-80, counsellor 1980-84, ambass extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Netherlands 1984-90, appointed non-resident ambass to Romania 1988, ambass to the Ct of St James's 1993- (Doyen of Diplomatic Corps 2003); non-resident ambass: Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1994-95, Republic of Ireland 1995-; memb: Advsy Bd Centre of Near and and ME Studies SOAS 1998-, Management of Public Sector Projects and facilities: an Executive Program for Kuwait Harvard Univ 2005-; co-ordinator with UN during creation of the demilitarised zone and with UN ctee for return of missing and stolen property 1992; Award of Excellence Br Business Forum 2009, Lifetime Contribution to Diplomacy in London Diplomat Magazine 2009, Three Faiths Forum Gold Medallion 2010, UN Assoc Annual Award for Exceptional Service to the Int Community 2011. Lifetime Achievement as a Diplomat Ben TV Diplomatic Award 2011; Freeman City of London 2001; hon doctorate Univ of E Anglia 2012; memb: IOD, RIIA