Sir Dominic Asquith KCMG, British High Commissioner, presents credentials
Sir Dominic Asquith KCMG, British High Commissioner in India, presented his credentials to His Excellency The President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday, 4 April 2016.
Sir Dominic said:
It was a great honour to present my credentials to His Excellency The President of India. It is also an enormous privilege to have been entrusted, as British High Commissioner, with the opportunity to deepen and broaden the partnership between Britain and India. I am impatient to get to know this great country and its people; and am resolved to play my part in realising the potential of this unique relationship.
Curriculum Vitae
| Full name | The Honourable Sir Dominic Asquith KCMG |
| Married to | Louise Asquith |
| Children | Four |
| 2013 – present | Senior Adviser, Dentons LLP; Senior Director, Macro Advisory Partners; Senior Adviser, Group DF International; Chairman, Libyan British Business Council; Adviser, Tatweer Research; Adviser, Libya Holdings Group; Board of Advisers, Tamweel Capital; Board of Trustees, Institute of Statecraft |
| 2011 – 2012 | Tripoli, Her Majesty’s Ambassador |
| 2011 | UK Special Representative Libya |
| 2007 – 2011 | Cairo, Her Majesty’s Ambassador |
| 2006 – 2007 | Baghdad, Her Majesty’s Ambassador |
| 2004 – 2006 | FCO, Director Iraq |
| 2004 | Baghdad, Deputy Special Representative and Chargé d’Affaires |
| 2001 – 2004 | Riyadh, Deputy Head of Mission |
| 1997 – 2001 | Buenos Aires, Minister/Deputy Head of Mission |
| 1997 | Spanish Language Training |
| 1996 – 1997 | FCO, Drugs and International Crime Department |
| 1992 – 1996 | Washington, First Secretary |
| 1990 – 1992 | FCO, Private Secretary to Minister of State |
| 1989 – 1990 | FCO, Desk Officer, European Union Department (Internal) |
| 1987 – 1989 | Muscat, First Secretary |
| 1986 – 1987 | Damascus, Second Secretary and Head of British Interests Section |
| 1984 – 1986 | FCO, Arabic Language Training |
| 1983 – 1984 | FCO, Southern European Department |
| 1983 | Joined FCO, French language training followed by Soviet Department |
| 1981 – 1983 | Executive Secretary, Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Co-operation, London |
| 1981 | Freelance Journalist, Amman |
| 1979 – 1981 | Researcher, Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding (CAABU) |
| 1975 | Researcher, Institute of Palestinian Studies, Beirut |
| 1975 | Musa Alami project, Jericho, West Bank |
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