Richard Lewington (diplomat)

Richard George Lewington (born 13 April 1948) is a retired British diplomat. He has been working with the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia, based in the Field Office, Gori, since August 2011. He is a Trustee of the Dorset Expeditionary Society, a life member of the Society of Dorset Men, and a member of Dorset Wildlife Trust.

Lewington entered the Foreign Office in 1967, before that department was merged into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office the next year. Over the next 39 years, after full-time Russian language training, he served around the world, mainly in Central Asia, the Mediterranean and the Andean region of South America. His assignments included Mongolia, Peru, the Soviet Union, Israel, and Yugoslavia, in addition to holding several positions in Whitehall.

In 1995, he was posted as Deputy High Commissioner to Malta. In 1999, he received his first posting as head of a diplomatic mission, as Ambassador to Kazakhstan and (non-resident) to the Kyrgyz Republic. In 2002, he left that position, before being posted to Ecuador the following year as Ambassador to Ecuador until his retirement from the Diplomatic Service at the end of 2006. From 2007 to 2009 he was Chief Technical Adviser for Tajikistan for the EU Border Management and Drug Action Programmes in Central Asia (BOMCA/CADAP) based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.^[1] He is married with two adult children, and has a home in West Dorset. His hobbies include collecting old maps and books on Dorset and rambling.^[2]

References

1. "Change of Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador". British High Commission, New Zealand. 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
2. "Dorset thoughts from Abroad". Dorset Life. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-07-09.