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Anthony Cary
Anthony
Cary served as the British High
Commissioner in Canada from 2007 to 2010. He is now Executive Director of
a partnership between Queen’s University in Ontario and Blyth Education which
enables students to earn University credits on courses offered in many
different international settings. He is also a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner,
and Hon President of the Canada-UK Colloquium.
In 2011 he was a juror for the
$75,000 Cundill History Prize. He retired from the FCO that year, after a 38
year career in Berlin (as a political adviser to the then British Military
Government); in the FCO Policy Planning Staff in London; as Private Secretary
to Malcolm Rifkind and also to Lynda Chalker when they were Ministers at the
FCO; as head of the political section in the British High Commission in
Kuala Lumpur; as deputy head of Leon Brittan's cabinet in the European
Commission; as head of the FCO's European Union Department (internal);
as a Counsellor in the British Embassy in Washington DC responsible for
Congressional relations with a particular involvement in the Northern Ireland
Peace Process; as head of Chris Patten's cabinet in the European
Commission; as Ambassador to Sweden; and finally as High Commissioner to
Canada.
During a career break in the early 1980s he took an MBA at
Stanford Business School on a Harkness Fellowship. He married Clare Elworthy in 1975. They have three
sons and a daughter – all now in gainful employment, and two married.
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