Dominic Meiklejohn

Part of UK in USA [New York]

7th June 2010 New York, USA

The Summer Season Begins

A short working week last week, with the Memorial Day holiday on Monday.  Memorial Day and Fleet week are big events in the life of one of our most important New York Partners, the Intrepid museum, with whom we work closely on veterans issues.
 
Welcome to Yorkshire have been busy promoting Yorkshire as great place for a holiday.  Their clipper "Hull and Humber" has been in New York, the latest destination on a round-the-world race.  Anybody taking a yellow cab in New York for the next few days will see their advert running on the taxi TV screens.
 
Another British export to New York is rugby.  Really.  52 teams from New York City’s Public Schools will compete for the Mayor’s Cup on Saturday 5 June.  PS 218 represents the British hopes.  If you’re near Randalls Island and want to find out what rugby is/looks like, this is your chance.
 
And a plug for British music- Ronnie Scott’s jazz club is celebrating its 50th anniversary at the Birdland Jazz club on 15 June.
 
Finally, if you are a British national living in New York please do consider registering with us through Locate– in an emergency, it makes it much easier for us to give consular assistance.

About Dominic Meiklejohn

I was born in Woking, outside London, in 1967 and attended Merton College, Oxford University, graduating in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. After university, I worked for HM Customs and Excise…

I was born in Woking, outside London, in 1967 and attended Merton College, Oxford University, graduating in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

After university, I worked for HM Customs and Excise before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1990. After working for the European Community Department, I learned Polish and began a posting at the British Embassy Warsaw, where I headed the British Know How Fund for Poland (1993-96). In 1997, I worked for the OSCE Mission in Albania, before heading up the India team in the South Asian Department of the FCO. In 2000, I was posted as First Secretary to the British Embassy Warsaw, with a particular focus on European Union issues in the run-up to Poland’s accession to the EU. In 2003, I returned to the UK as Deputy Head of the Environment Policy Department. From 2004-2005, I led the FCO’s Knowledge Management Programme. During this period, I led two deployments of the FCO’s Consular Rapid Deployment Team– to Sri Lanka, after the tsunami in 2004 and to Pakistan, after the earthquake in 2005. From 2006-2007, I served as Deputy Consul-General, Basra, Iraq. From June 2007 I worked with the FCO’s Change Unit.

I took up my current appointment on 22 January 2008. My wife Joanne and I are the proud parents of Olivia. Outside of the office, I cycle around Manhattan, play soccer (football) and, when parenting duties allow, enjoy the cultural riches offered by New York. I try hard to understand baseball.

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