Ian Cliff

Ian Cameron Cliff

OSCE and Kosovo, as well as Chargé d'Affaires in Croatia

Career

Ian Cliff is the son of Gerald Shaw Cliff, who was Resident Engineer

Chargé d'Affaires to Croatia for a year.^[3]

As Ambassador in Sarajevo he was a member of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board and supported High Representative Lord Ashdown in building up the state institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.^{[citation needed]} In the Sudan he was a member of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission charged with monitoring the implementation of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement.^{[citation needed]}

Cliff is a railway enthusiast and a member of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Society which supports the operation of the North Norfolk Railway between Sheringham and Holt. He was noted driving industrial steam locomotives in Bosnia and the Pristina to Peja passenger train in Kosovo.^{[citation needed]}

He is married to Caroline Cliff, who was also a member of the Diplomatic Service until retirement in 2022, and they have three children, born 1989, 1993 and 2001.^{[citation needed]}

Cliff retired from the Diplomatic Service in 2016 but continued to work for the

Foreign and Commonwealth Office as Principal Research Analyst, Western Balkans until 2022. He is a trustee of the Slynn Foundation.^{[citation needed}

]

In 1991, while he was in New York, Ian Cliff was appointed

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2017 New Year Honours.^[5]

References

CLIFF, Ian Cameron, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013
Ian Cliff, gov.uk

^ "Ambassador's career history". Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), British Embassy Pristina, 7 October 2011
^ "Arrival of the new British Ambassador to Kosovo". British Embassy Pristina. 11 April 2015.
^ "Chargé d'Affaires to Croatia appointed". British Embassy Zagreb. 15 May 2015.
^ "No. 52588". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 June 1991. p. 29.
^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N3.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Graham Hand	Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001–2005	Succeeded by Matthew Rycroft
Preceded by Sir William Patey	Ambassador to Sudan 2005–2007	Succeeded by Dame Rosalind Marsden
Preceded by Colin Munro	Head of UK Delegation to the OSCE 2007–2011	Succeeded by Dominic Schroeder
Preceded by Andrew Sparkes	Ambassador to Kosovo 2011–2015	Succeeded by Ruairí O’Connell
Preceded by David Slinn	Chargé d'Affaires to Croatia 2015–2016	Succeeded by Andrew Dalgleish

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[1] "Ambassador's career history". Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), British Embassy Pristina, 7 October 2011

[2] "Arrival of the new British Ambassador to Kosovo". British Embassy Pristina. 11 April 2015.

[3] "Chargé d'Affaires to Croatia appointed". British Embassy Zagreb. 15 May 2015.

[4] "No. 52588". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 June 1991. p. 29.

[5] "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N3.

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