Rosemary Thomas

Rosemary Thomas OBE (born 17 July 1964) is a British diplomat who was Ambassador to Belarus 2009–12.

Early life

Thomas was born as Rosemary O'Brien in Liverpool to a catholic family. Thomas attended the Bellerive Girls' School (also known as the Bellerive Convent Grammar School), which was then a catholic girls' direct grant grammar school, and is now the Bellerive FCJ Catholic College.

Education

Thomas earned a BA degree in Russian from University of Leeds.

Career

FCO

Thomas joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1990. From 1997–8 she was a Desk Officer at the Asia–Europe Meeting Summit, then from 1998–2001 was in the Russian Section of the Eastern Department. From 2001–3 she was Head of the office for cooperation with the OSCE and the Council of Europe. From 2003–5 she was Head of the War Crimes Section in the International Organisations Department.

EU

From 2006–7, Thomas was the Head of Communications of the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine, based in Odessa.

Afghanistan

From 2007–8, Thomas was First Secretary of Counter Narcotics in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Ambassador

Thomas became the British Ambassador to Belarus on 17 September 2009, based in Minsk.[1] She left Belarus in July 2012 to transfer to another Diplomatic Service appointment.[2]

Personal life

In 1990, Thomas married Alan Howard Thomas. Thomas is a member of the National Liberal Club. Thomas received the OBE in the 2009 Birthday Honours.

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gollark: I mean, if you go around trying revolutioning, this will:- probably turn out badly for you- also probably not do much
gollark: I don't agree. "People" in aggregate can, but you aren't that.
gollark: This is the "missing the point" bit and it is inevitable until I finish scrolling down.
gollark: It's silly to blame people for "not doing anything" to attempt to change things when they cannot, in fact, actually do much, and you're missing the point linking lists of revolutions and such (besides, how many actually went *well*?).

References
  1. New UK Ambassador to Arrive in Belarus in mid-September, Office for a democratic Belarus, 1 September 2009
  2. Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus, FCO press release, 23 January 2012

Additional sources
  • THOMAS, Rosemary, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011, accessed 7 Sept 2012
  • Belarus TV (National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus on youtube)
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Nigel Gould-Davies		 British Ambassador to Belarus
2009–2012		 Succeeded by
Bruce Bucknell
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