Stephen Wright (diplomat)

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Sir Stephen John Leadbetter Wright, KCMG (born 7 December 1946) is a retired British diplomat who was Chief Executive Officer of International Financial Services London from 2008 to 2010 and is currently a Senior Adviser to Mitsui & Co.

Born in

Under-Secretary at the FCO from 2000 to 2002, and Ambassador to Spain and the Principality of Andorra 2003–2007.[2]
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Since retiring from the Diplomatic Service in 2007, Wright has been a senior adviser to the

Good Governance Group as well as CEO of International Financial Services London 2008–2010,[4] senior adviser to TheCityUK 2010–11, and Senior Adviser to Mitsui & Co Europe plc since 2008.[2]

Wright became a trustee of the Zurbaran Trust, part of the Auckland Project, in 2016; and Hon Secretary of the Pilgrims Society of Great Britain in 2017.

Soon after joining the diplomatic service, Wright married Georgina Butler,[5] and they had a son and a daughter.[3] The marriage was dissolved in 2000.[6] In 2002 he married Elizabeth Abbott (Abbey) Rosemont.

Wright’s recreations are music, opera, art, and rowing.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "An interview with Sir Stephen Wright KCMG". Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 7 July 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) from pr-inside.com
  2. ^ a b c WRIGHT, Sir Stephen (John Leadbetter), Who's Who 2012 (A & C Black, 2012); online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011, accessed 21 June 2012
  3. ^ a b Diplomatic Service List, Vol. 36 (2001), p. 327: “Wright, Stephen... Chancery New Delhi 1988; Counsellor (External Relations) UKREP Brussels 1991; Director (EU Affairs) FCO 1994; Minister Washington 1997. Director (Wider Europe) FCO 1999; m 1970 Georgina Susan Butler (1d 1977; Is 1979)”
  4. ^ Stephen Wright named CEO of International Financial Services London, 26 November 2007
  5. ^ Helen McCarthy, Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat (2014), p. 293
  6. ^ “Butler, HE Georgina Susan” in People of Today (2006), p. 245