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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