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Rosalind Campion

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15th May 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

LA Environmental

If someone had asked me to picture a stereotype of Los Angeles prior to my trip there at the end of last week, I might have imagined sun bouncing off the Hollywood sign, towering above huge highways where massive cars roared by, conveying wannabe starlets through the smog to their latest audition or waitress interview. […]

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11th May 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

An Evolving Debate in Europe and America

Something I always dread happened the other day. A lunch guest bounced up to me enthusiastically and asked me how I felt about the President’s announcement.  I was uncharacteristically but completely nonplussed.  I’d been in back to back meetings all morning in Sacramento (hearing a rather different view from that of the Bay on economics and innovation […]

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9th May 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

Hacking for innovation: from Silicon Valley to a parking space near you

I think I first started longing to go to San Francisco as I read my way through Amistead Maupin’s famous Tales of the City series. The books depict said city as a colourful whirl of decadence and debauchery, with a quirky cast of characters that rendered my own friends and neighbours disappointingly pedestrian by comparison. […]

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27th April 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

Do we have the right to be forgotten on the internet?

Last night I hosted an event for former Marshall Scholars at the Embassy with a brilliant talk by Jeff Rosen on Google, the internet, and privacy. This is of course a hot topic at the moment – for the public, for Governments, for NGOs and for businesses. I’ve also got a keen interest in it as […]

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6th April 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

A GREAT Good Friday

On our very first visit to DC, a chilly weekend last October, to scope out the city as our imminent home, we crawled jetlagged onto the metro at an unpleasant hour of the morning. It might have made sense to start house hunting, or to embark on some general meandering to get a sense of […]

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3rd April 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

The best laid plans of mice and runners

When I saw my diary for last Wednesday, I realised that a snapshot of my activities that day would be the perfect way to answer that ubiquitous question posed by friends, family, old colleagues, and assorted others: “what do you actually do?” Business Minister Mark Prisk was visiting Washington and our plans for his visit […]

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19th March 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

The essential relationship — faster, higher, stronger

It was pretty much impossible to look at a newspaper, news programme, tweet or blog last week without being met by numerous photographs of David Cameron and Barack Obama sharing a joke, or their quotes about the essential relationship shared by the US and UK. They even wrote a piece together for the Washington Post. […]

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7th March 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

An unconventional flapper lives the American Dream

My mother’s mother was born early in the 20th century in a small Welsh mining village. She was the third of 11 children and she left school – illegally – at 12 to work in a factory. This was not uncommon – indeed only her very youngest sister finished school. Married at 17, to avoid […]

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1st March 2012 Washington DC, USA

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by Rosalind Campion

Counsellor for Global Issues

Economic diplomacy from St James’ to San Juan

Last week I took a very belated Christmas holiday to Puerto Rico.  It was very lovely…even if it has meant that one particular friend and colleague has sung West Side Story’s “America” (which compares the perceived pros and cons of living in NYC to San Juan) every time we’ve bumped into each other since my return.  But […]

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About Rosalind Campion

Rosalind Campion was appointed Counsellor for Global Issues at the British Embassy in Washington DC in 2011. Her team works on policy issues including trade, business, energy, the environment, science,…

Rosalind Campion was appointed Counsellor for Global Issues at the British Embassy in Washington DC in 2011. Her team works on policy issues including trade, business, energy, the environment, science, innovation and transport.

Originally a corporate lawyer working in London on intellectual property issues, Roz was most recently with the Ministry of Justice, where she set up and ran the Sentencing Council, the national organisation responsible for ensuring a consistent approach to criminal sentencing by the UK’s judiciary.

She has previous experience working on foreign policy issues, including during her time at the Ministry of Justice, as well as through her work with the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency and as a lawyer working on international law cases for a top human rights litigation firm.

During her time in academia, Roz was responsible for the public international law programme at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, where she specialised in international trade and environment law.

She lives in Georgetown with her partner, Dr Layla McCay.

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