2003 - 2009: British Embassy Paris
2003 - 2009: British Embassy Paris
Brief
- Coordinating the Anglo-French and Franco-Scottish Education Agreements
- Organising visits and meetings for Ministers and Whitehall officials
- Researching and writing briefings, dispatches, detailed reports, press releases, articles and speeches on education, equality, disability and housing for UK Government departments and diplomats
- Organising conferences and seminars on equality and education
- Fielding requests for information – by telephone and in writing – from French and UK Government departments, journalists, NGOs and members of the public on social affairs, equality, education, housing, and disability in France and the UK.
Highlights
- Negotiated the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding by French and English Education Ministers at the Franco-British Summit.
- Coordinated seminars of French and British education experts.
- Assisted in the organisation of a high-level Franco-British conference on discrimination.
- Organised a visit to the UK and arranged high-level meetings for the then head of the French Equality Commission.
- Organised and accompanied a visit to the UK and arranged high-level meetings for the head of Sciences' Po.
- Organised and accompanied a visit to France of the Public Administration Select Committee
Assisted in the organisation of the Toulouse leg of the visit of HM the Queen in 2004. - Organised the visit to France of then Head of the Commission for Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips