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Stephen John Wordsworth (born 1955) is a former British diplomat, now Executive Director of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics == Biography == Wordsworth was born in Port Talbot, South Wales, and educated at St John’s School Porthcawl, Epsom College and Downing College Cambridge, where he studied German and Russian (MA). He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1977. He served abroad in Moscow in Leonid Brezhnev’s last years, in Lagos through two military coups, in Bonn during the process of German reunification and at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe as a Political Adviser to SACEURs George Joulwan and Wesley Clark for three years during NATO’s IFOR and SFOR operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In London, he held a range of posts in the FCO and Cabinet Office, including as FCO Section Head for relations with East Germany and Berlin as the Berlin Wall came down, and as FCO Head of Department dealing with the Western Balkans when Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown. His last two overseas posts were as Minister/Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow during Vladimir Putin’s Presidency, and as Ambassador in Belgrade. He had a high media profile in Serbia, and was the first foreign Ambassador in Belgrade to start blogging on current affairs.〔(British Embassy website, launch of the Embassy blog 2009, The National Archives )〕 In 1992 he was honoured by Her Majesty the Queen with the award of Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order for his part in the organisation of her State Visit that year to Germany. At the same time he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2011.〔(Queen's Birthday Honours 2011, Diplomatic and Overseas List )〕 After leaving the FCO, Wordsworth joined the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) as Executive Director in 2012.〔(CARA Website announces new Executive Director, April 2012 )〕〔(Times Higher Education announces new CARA Executive Director, 19 April 2012 )〕 Originally founded as the Academic Assistance Council in 1933 by William Beveridge, A V Hill and others, to assist Jewish and other academics forced to flee the Nazi regime, CARA now works with a network of some 70 universities in the UK to support academics from all over the world who have been forced to flee their home countries by discrimination, violence and death threats, at the hands of repressive regimes and extremist groups. CARA also operates overseas programmes to support academics in Iraq and Zimbabwe. Wordsworth was a member of the first cohort to take the ''Financial Times'' Non-Executive Director Certificate course, graduating in 2012 〔(Financial Times NED Certificate Course graduation announcement, FT, 24 May 2012 )〕 . He is also a member of the British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce〔(British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce, 18 March 2010 )〕 and of Northchapel Parish Council,〔(Northchapel Parish Council webpage )〕 in West Sussex. His wife, Nichole, was also a member of the British Diplomatic Service. They have one son. 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「Stephen Wordsworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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