Learning from History: Know How Fund
FCO
Sir Tim Lankester was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 2001–09 of which he is currently an Honorary Fellow. He was Permanent Secretary at the ODA, FCO, 1989–94. He worked as an Economist for the World Bank in Washington DC, 1966–69 and New Delhi, 1970– 73. He then worked in the Civil Service as: Private Secretary to the Rt Hon. James Callaghan, 1978–79 and to the Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher, 1979–81; Under Secretary at HM Treasury, 1983– 85; Economic Minister, Washington and Executive Director at the IMF and the World Bank, 1985– 88; Deputy Secretary, HM Treasury, 1988–89; Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education, 1994–95; Director at SOAS, 1996-2000. Ann Lewis is Vice-Chairwoman of Governors at the English college in Prague and a retired member of HM Diplomatic Service. She served in the Research Department, 1966–70, 1971-72 and 1974–79; Moscow, 1970–71; Helsinki, 1972–74; Assessments Staff, Cabinet Office, 1979–82; East Berlin as Head of Chancery, 1982–85; Eastern European Department 1985-2000, including as Deputy Head, 1988-91; Cultural Relations Department, as Deputy Head and Head, 1991-2000. She has recently edited several books on the EU and the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Mark Lowcock has been Permanent Secretary for DFID since 2011. He served at DFID and its predecessor, the ODA, as Private Secretary to Baroness Chalker, Minister for Overseas Development, 1992-94. He was Deputy Head and Head of the DFID Regional Office for Central Africa (in Harare), 1994-97; Head of European Union Department, 1997-99; Head of the DFID Regional Office for East Africa (in Nairobi); Director, Finance and Corporate Performance, 200103; Director General, Corporate Performance and Knowledge Sharing from 2003-06; Director General, Policy and International, 2006-08 and Director General, Country Programmes, 2008-11. Michael McCulloch headed the Joint Assistance Unit of the Know How Fund for the former Soviet Union, FCO, 1992–97. He served in the ODM/ODA from 1969, including as Assistant and then Principal Private Secretary to the Ministers for Overseas Development, 1972–73 and 1984–85 and as Head of the Evaluation Department, 1985–86. He represented the UK as Executive Director on the Board of the EBRD, 1997–2001, and served as Special Advisor to its President, 2003–04. He was then a member of the Investment Committee of Europolis Invest AG, which develops a commercial property portfolio in Central and Eastern Europe, 2002-2011, and Chairman of the BEARR Trust, which supports social reform and NGOs in the former Soviet Union, 2003-2008. Barney Smith is a retired member of HM Diplomatic Service and has been Editor of Asian Affairs, since 2005. He was Director of the Know How Fund for Eastern Europe, 1990–92 and as Head of the Joint Assistance Unit he first ran all the programmes, including in Russia, and when the JAU for the Soviet Union was established, he ran the JAU for Eastern Europe. He has also served in: Bangkok, 1970–74 and 1987-90 (Counsellor); Paris, 1977–78 and 1981-82 (ENA); and as: Head of Chancery in Dublin, 1978–81; First Secretary and Counsellor at the UK Representation to the EEC in Brussels, 1982–86; Head of the South Asia Department, 1993–95; Ambassador to Nepal, 1995–99 and to Thailand, 2000–03. Tim Stew is Head of the Arab Partnership Department in the FCO, which leads on the UK‟s strategic response to the Arab Spring. He was appointed in October 2010 as leader of a team to develop a policy regarding popular discontent in the Middle East and North Africa. Its pre-Arab Spring recommendations led to the Arab Partnership, launched by the Foreign Secretary in February 2011 and expanded in May 2011 as a joint FCO and DFID programme. He has 17 years of Middle-East experience, including postings in Egypt, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and work on Iraq. He has conflict experience in Bosnia where he helped establish the 3-man British Embassy during the siege of Sarajevo in 1995 and witnessed the early stages of transition to peace following the Dayton accords. Sir John Vereker is a Director of XL Group plc, XL Insurance Company and MWH Global. He was Permanent Secretary for ODA/DFID, 1994-2002 and Governor of Bermuda, 2002–07. He served in a number of posts at DFID and its predecessor departments from 1967, including as: Private Secretary to successive Ministers of Overseas Development; Under Secretary, 1983–88; Principal Finance Officer, ODA, FCO 1986–88. He also held posts at the World Bank in Washington, 1970– 30 October 2013
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