Paul Madden has been the British Ambassador to Japan from January 2017. He was Additional Director for Asia Pacific at the FCO in 2015.He was British High Commissioner to Australia…
Paul Madden has been the British Ambassador to Japan from January 2017.
He was Additional Director for Asia Pacific at the FCO in 2015.He was British High Commissioner to Australia until February 2015. Prior to this he was British High Commissioner in Singapore from 2007-2011.
A career diplomat, he was previously Managing Director at UK Trade and Investment (2004-2006), responsible for co-ordinating and
implementing international trade development strategies to support
companies across a wide range of business sectors.
As Assistant Director of Information at the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office (2003-2004) he was responsible for public diplomacy policy,
including managing the FCO funding of the BBC World Service, the British
Council and the Chevening Scholarships programme. He led the team
responsible for the award-winning UK pavilion at the Aichi Expo in Japan
2005.
He was Deputy High Commissioner in Singapore from 2000-2003 and has
also served in Washington (1996-2000) and Tokyo (1988-92). Between
1992-96 he worked on EU enlargement and Environmental issues at the FCO
in London.
Before joining FCO he worked at the Department of Trade and Industry
(1980-87) on a range of industrial sectors and trade policy, including
two years as a minister’s Private Secretary.
He has an MA in Economic Geography from Cambridge University, an MBA
from Durham University, studied Japanese at London University’s School
of Oriental and African Studies, and is a Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society. His first book, Raffles: Lessons in Business
Leadership, was published in 2003.
Married to Sarah, with three children, he was born in 1959, in Devon.
Sure, every time I visit UK these ten years, I find UK has been getting very exciting for gastronome, compared with early eighties when I stayed there for 6 months.
I particularly like duck, lamb and beef in UK cuisine. They are getting more variety of cook these days.
Also wide variety of restaurant for middle east, Asia or any other countries are becoming available, it’s my headache when choosing restaurant in London.
Having local ale with cheese at outside table of countryside pub late afternoon is still my favorite but you’ll find it’s just a threshold for pleasure of UK food and drink.