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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

7th September 2011

Tweeting in Kyiv

For the last few months, I have been using Twitter to tweet about new blogs and occasionally to tweet or retweet (RT) on other subjects of interest about the UK and Ukraine.  As a result I now have a number of followers on Twitter including members of the public, students, diplomats, business people and opinion formers.

If all the above makes sense, you are probably already signed up to the Twitter micro-blogging site and following people or organisations of interest to you.  Many well-known figures from British Foreign Secretary William Hague (@WilliamJHague) to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (@foreignoffice) and from Barack Obama (@BarackObama) to Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5), plus many non-celebrities and organisations such as the BBC or the Economist, tweet regularly.  Signing up is free and easy: just go to the link above.  If you want to follow me, either search for “KyivUKAmbo” which is my twitter name or click on @KyivUKAmbo, and hit “follow”.

P.S. you can also follow and ‘like’ us on Facebook too.

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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