28th June 2012
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
The most common question I get in this job is “So what exactly does the OECD do?”. By the end of this blog I will have suggested that part of the answer is “it takes new approaches to economic challenges”. But let me start my answer by recalling the OECD’s founding mission, in 1961, “to promote policies designed […]
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21st June 2012
Paris, France
Transcript of a video recording by Sir Peter Ricketts, British Ambassador to France: I wanted to talk to you about two things that we have been heavily engaged on in the last couple of weeks. First of all I was able to pay my first visit to the Rhone-Alpes region, to the great city of […]
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21st June 2012
Paris, France
I arrived in Paris in February. I have already found this to be one of the most fascinating and rewarding jobs that I have ever had. Britain and France have ties that are both deep and broad. The two Governments work together on a huge range of issues from foreign policy and defence, to nuclear […]
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