Ian Cameron Cliff OBE was appointed Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna on 1 August 2007. He holds the personal rank of Ambassador.

 

Date of Birth:     11 September 1952
Marital Status:   Married (Mrs Caroline Cliff)
Children:           One son (born 1989), two

                        daughters (born 1993

                        and 2001)
Honours:           OBE – Order of the British

                        Empire

 

 

2007               Head of UK Delegation to the

                      OSCE

2005 - 2007     SUDAN (HM Ambassador)

2001 - 2005     BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA (HM Ambassador)

1996 - 2001     VIENNA (Deputy Head of Mission, Consul General and

                      Director of Trade Promotion)
1993 - 1996     Counsellor on loan to Department of Trade and Industry

                      (Director Exports to the Middle East and North Africa)
1989 - 1993     UK MISSION NEW YORK  (1st Secretary)
1985 - 1989     FCO (Permanent Under Secretary's Department 1987 - 89,

                      Middle East Dept 1985 - 87)
1982 - 1985     KHARTOUM (1st Sec Political)
1975 - 1979     History Master, Dr Challoner's Grammar School
   

  Hampton Grammar School
  Magdalen College, Oxford (MA Modern History)
   

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