Tag: Consul General

28th June 2013 USA

Chicago Blues: 5 Reasons I’ll Miss The Midwest

I’m about to leave Chicago after three fascinating and rewarding years as Consul General promoting the UK across 13 states of the US Midwest – an area bigger than western Europe and with an economy the size of Germany’s. People in Chicago often ask what a Consul General does. So here are five lasting impressions […]

25th May 2012 Washington DC, USA

by Eric Hepburn

HM Consul General and Counsellor for Corporate Services

Our man in Florida

I guess everyone has a mental image of a place, born from reading books or watching films and TV. So when I travelled to Miami to meet up with the British Consul General, Kevin McGurgan, and his remarkable team, the tropical storm that greeted the plane when it tried to land the first time took […]