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Department of Political Science Seminar - presented by Simon Smith (Ambassador, Republic of Korea)
21 February 2019, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm
Simon Smith has been British Ambassador to the Republic of Korea since March 2018.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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UCL Department of Political Science
Location
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Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture TheatreG06, Roberts BuildingGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BT
Simon first visited North and South Korea in 2002-4 when he was Head of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s NE Asia & Pacific Department. Simon has served as British Ambassador to Ukraine and to Austria – where he was also the UK’s Permanent Representative to UN and international organisations in Vienna, and the UK Governor on the Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
About the Speaker
Simon Smith
Ambassador at HM Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Simon Smith began his career in the Diplomatic Service in 1986, and has also worked – largely on economic, trade and investment issues – at the British Embassies in Tokyo and Moscow. Simon is from Bristol, and studied German and French at Oxford University.
He spent 6 months in Seoul continuing his study of Korean in 2017. In addition to these languages he speaks Russian, Ukrainian and Japanese. His wife, Sian Stickings, a lawyer by training, is also a keen linguist and a student of Korean. They have two daughters who live and work in the UK.
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