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Dame Denise Mary Holt, DCMG (née Mills; born 1 October 1949, Vienna, Austria) was British Ambassador to Mexico (2002-05) and Spain and Andorra (2007–09). A Non-Executive Director of HSBC Bank plc (2011-) and Chairman of M&S Bank (an HSBC subsidiary), Denise joined the Board of Nuffield Health in 2013 and in 2014 became a NED on the Board of Iberdrola SA, the Spanish energy company, having previously served on the Boards of Scottish Power Renewables and Scottish Power Energy Holdings (both Iberdrola subsidiaries). She is a member of the Council of Bristol University (2014-) and Independent Chair of the nominations committee of the Alzheimer's Society. Previous roles include Ofqual (the examinations regulator in England) from 2010-2013 and the NHS Pay Review Body 2010-2014. She was Chair of Trustees of the Anglo-Spanish Society (2010-2013), a member of the Management Council of the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies at LSE, and Chair of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London. On 20 June 2011, Scottish Power Renewables announced in a press release that they had appointed Holt to their board as a non-executive director.〔(Scottish Power Renewables press release ), scottishpowerrenewables.com; accessed 27 June 2015.〕 Holt grew up in Russia, Japan, Lebanon, Netherlands, Iran and Bulgaria. She was educated at New Hall School, Chelmsford, and Bristol University where she studied Spanish, French and Politics.〔(Profile ), euroweeklynews.com; accessed 27 June 2015.〕 She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1970 as Research Analyst for Spain and Portugal. Overseas postings included Ireland in 1984 where she was First Secretary of the British Embassy in Dublin, followed by a spell as Head of the Central American Section at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1988–90). She served as First Secretary of the British Embassy in Brazil (1991–93). She was Deputy Head of Eastern Department, responsible for relations with newly independent countries of Central Asia and the Trans Caucasus. In London in 1996 she was appointed as Deputy Director of Human Resources in the FCO (1999–2001) and later Director. Later on in her career she also became Director for Migration and for the Overseas Territories (2005–07) at the FCO.〔 ==Personal life== Denise married David Holt in 1987 while they were both serving in the British Embassy in Ireland; the couple has one child, a son, Patrick Holt.〔(British ambassador to Spain becomes Dame Denise Holt in Queens Birthday Honours ), spanishvida.com; accessed 27 June 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Denise Holt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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