Profile: John Freeman

The UK’s newly-appointed Ambassador to Argentina, Dr John Freeman, who is to take office during the winter months in Buenos Aires, has a long history working as a diplomat. Freeman has worked all over the world, including different placements in South Africa, Germany and Singapore.

Below is the diplomat’s detailed work history, as published in the press release by the UK’s Foreign Office:

2006 – 2011

Secondment, Deputy Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague, The Netherlands

2004 – 2006

Her Majesty’s Ambassador for Multilateral Arms Control [from 2005] and Her Majesty’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Conference on Disarmament [from 2004], Geneva

2001 – 2004

Brussels, Deputy Permanent Representative at NATO and Alternate Representative on the North Atlantic Council

1997 – 2001

Her Majesty’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN agencies in Vienna

1994 – 1997

Singapore, Deputy High Commissioner and Commercial and Economic Counsellor

1994

Attached to the Trade Promotion division of the Department of Trade and Industry

1991 – 1994

FCO, Deputy Head of the Eastern (later Central) European Department, and, secondly, as Head of the Security Co-ordination Department

1989 – 1991

Senate Liaison, British Military Government in Berlin, and subsequently Head of the Political Section in the Berlin Office of the British Embassy in Germany

1986 – 1989

FCO, Head of South Africa Section