D ELI GHT S | NEW ARRIVALS Joy Ruth Acheng High Commissioner for Uganda
Joy Ruth Acheng comes to diplomacy from politics, but she began her career as a teacher. After completing a bachelor’s degree in education at Makerere University in Kampala, she taught part-time at St. Katherine and Aduku Senior Secondary schools. Between 2002 and 2004, she became secretary for education and children affairs in the Apach District. She then completed a post-gradute diploma in public administration and management, before becoming a social worker at War Child Holland’s Lira field office, a position she held between 2008 and 2010. Between 2011 and 2016, she was a member of parliament for the Kole District. Since 2013, she has been a board member at All Saint University in Lango. High Commissioner Acheng is currently completing a master’s degree at the Uganda Management Institute in Kampala. She is married and speaks three languages: English, Luo and some Kiswahili Susan le Jeune d’Allegeershecque High Commissioner for the U.K.
High Commissioner le Jeune d’Allegeer shecque began her career with the foreign service in 1985 as a desk officer in the nuclear energy department. Two years later, she was sent to Brussels as third secretary, which was upgraded to second secretary before she left the post in 1989. She returned to headquarters for two years before being sent to Singapore as second secretary. After another return to the ministry, she was off for the next three years to Caracas as deputy head of mission. She then spent three more years in Bogota in the same position. From 2005 to 2007, she was counsellor and consul general in Washington and was later sent as ambassador to Vienna (2012-2016). Prior to her posting in Canada, she was chargé d’affaires at the U.K.’s embassy in Paris. The high commissioner is married and has two children.
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Non-heads of mission Australia Katherine Anne O’donnell Attaché Susan Joy Pullar Counsellor Peter John Beacroft Second secretary Belgium Georges Patrick L. Franchomme Defence attaché Bosnia And Herzegovina Zlatko Aksamija Counsellor and chargé d’affaires Brazil Alcides Teixeira Barbacovi Defence and air attaché Chile Sebastien Eduardo Molina Medina First secretary China Xuan Wang First secretary Gang Wang Counsellor Yong Wu First secretary Ning An First secretary Colombia Natalia Carolina Mantilla Munoz Second secretary Dominican Republic Yamila Alejandra Fersobe Botello Counsellor Luis Maria Kalaff Sanchez Minister-counsellor Michelle Teresa Jorge Dumit Counsellor France Marie Cécile E. Hours First secretary Germany Nadine Assistant Emser-Koenig Attaché Eva-Ricarda Baerbel Willems First secretary Ghana Elvis Kwame Arhinful Second secretary
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Korea, South Jong Kyoung Park Counsellor
New Zealand David Roger Julian Lynch Deputy high commissioner Andrew Scott Taylor First secretary Rachel Amy Spencer Second secretary
Kosovo Blerta Ademi Beqiri First Secretary
Nigeria Joseph Sule Atodo Minister
Kuwait Abdullah Abulaziz Alhusainan Attaché Yaseen M Sh E S Almajed Second secretary Mudhaf Almudhaf Attaché Hasham Almotawaa Attaché
Norway Bjarte Havik Counsellor
Libya Khaled Elsahli Counsellor and chargé d’affaires Madagascar Haritiana Razafimandimby Attaché Malaysia Chia Chiann Wong First secretary Mexico Arturo Hernandez Basave Deputy head of mission
Philippines Rosalie Gonsalves Attaché Portugal Joao Paulo Barbosa Da Costa Counsellor Romania Marian-Florin Ureche Defence, Military, Naval and Air Attaché Gheorghe Predescu Attaché Russia Mikhail Tolchenov First secretary Pavel Kudinov Second secretary Alexander Posylkin First secretary
Saudi Arabia Abdullah Mohammed S. Alqarni Attaché Abdulrahman Abdullah Smele Attaché Abdullah Mohammed S. Alqahtani Attaché Saleh Ahmed K Alghamdi Attaché Ahmed Mufadhi T. Al Anzi Attaché Sultan Mohammed I. Mohauish First secretary Sri Lanka Roshan Sithara Khan Azard Deputy high commissioner Turkey Suat Demir Attaché United Arab Emirates Mohamed R. M. Alfandi Alshamsi Third secretary United Kingdom Henry John Southcott First secretary United States of America Jennifer Darlene Gordon Attaché Marjorie Gail Fitton Attaché Evan Nicholas Mangino Attaché Joseph Lynn Crook First secretary Cyndee Janeen Crook Second secretary And Consul Katherine Anne Musgrove Ketchum Second secretary and consul David Wayne Hall Counsellor Robert Emil Tibbetts Second secretary and consul Miles Hollis Ketchum Attaché Dawn Lenay Welfare First secretary Steven Charles Teschendorf Coast Guard attaché Eric Crawford Hammarsten Second secretary
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