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Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Part of UK in Ukraine

15th March 2011

Tell me: is this blog worth reading? Or writing?

This isn’t really a blog.  It’s an unashamed plug for an interview I recently gave to the Ukrainian weekly “Delo” about blogging.  I recommend it – apart from anything else it’s a summary of some of my favourite blog entries, and those which other people have most enjoyed.

The Foreign Office encourages bloggers to keep reviewing whether the blogs they write are worth the effort they take to write and publish.  It’s hard to be sure, particularly since this blog is re-published on several excellent independent news platforms.  But I’d love to know what you, the readers, think.  If I stopped writing it, would you care?  All comments welcome – please use the comment section below.

About Leigh Turner

I hope you find this blog interesting and, where appropriate, entertaining. My role in Vienna covers the relationship between Austria and the UK as well as the diverse work of…

I hope you find this blog interesting and, where appropriate, entertaining. My role in Vienna covers the relationship between Austria and the UK as well as the diverse work of the UN and other organisations; stories here will reflect that.

About me: I arrived in Vienna in August 2016 for my second posting in this wonderful city, having first served here in the mid-1980s. My previous job was as HM Consul-General and Director-General for Trade and Investment for Turkey, Central Asia and South Caucasus based in Istanbul.

Further back: I grew up in Nigeria, Exeter, Lesotho, Swaziland and Manchester before attending Cambridge University 1976-79. I worked in several government departments before joining the Foreign Office in 1983.

Keen to go to Africa and South America, I’ve had postings in Vienna (twice), Moscow, Bonn, Berlin, Kyiv and Istanbul, plus jobs in London ranging from the EU Budget to the British Overseas Territories.

2002-6 I was lucky enough to spend four years in Berlin running the house, looking after the children (born 1992 and 1994) and doing some writing and journalism.

To return to Vienna as ambassador is a privilege and a pleasure. I hope this blog reflects that.

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