Barney Smith
Lloyd Barnaby "Barney" Smith CMG (born 21 July 1945) is a retired British ambassador.
Career
Smith was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1968 and served in Bangkok, Paris, Dublin, Brussels and Bangkok (with a year at the École nationale d'administration in Paris). He was ambassador to Nepal 1995–99 and ambassador to Thailand (concurrently non-resident ambassador to Laos) 2000–03. He was editor of Asian Affairs 2005–16. He was a non-executive director 2006–14, and chairman 2011–14, of Coastal Energy, an oil and gas company working in Thailand and Malaysia[1] which was bought by CEPSA in 2014.
gollark: It seems like the problem here might be lack of systems to track and respond to demand, since I think lots of people probably would be willing to pay some money for a ventilator to be available if they need it during this pandemic.
gollark: Ones higher than LEO will stick around for a while. They won't *work* for a hundred years though.
gollark: I imagine you can probably pick out lots of bad things in any generation's time-spent-growing-up.
gollark: Cool how .money is a top level domain.
gollark: Just put all the ideologies in an arena and see who comes out alive.
References
- SMITH, Lloyd Barnaby, (Barney), Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015)
- "Coastal Energy: Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 9 September 2013.
| Diplomatic posts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Timothy George |
British Ambassador to Nepal 1995–1999 |
Succeeded by Ronald Nash |
| Preceded by Sir James Hodge |
British Ambassador to Thailand 2000–2003 |
Succeeded by David Fall |
| British Ambassador to Laos (non-resident) 2000–2003 | ||
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