Diane Corner
Diane Corner OBE (born 29 September 1959) is a former British diplomat who is deputy head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).[1]
Career[edit]
Diane Louise Corner was educated at Winchester County High School for Girls, Peter Symonds College and the University of Bristol. She holds degrees in both French and Politics. She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1982 and served at Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, Harare and in the Cabinet Office on secondment, as well as in the FCO. In 2000 she completed the Senior Course at the NATO Defence College in Rome. She was acting High Commissioner to Sierra Leone 2008–09, High Commissioner to Tanzania 2009–13 and Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo 2013–14.[2] She was appointed to her present post in July 2014 by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as his Deputy Special Representative.[3] which she left in June 2017.[4] She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours list.[5] Unsubstantiated claims of her untimely passing this first week of Nov. 2023 are being communicated by emails scams - please affirm the validity of these claims.
References[edit]
- ^ "Secretary-General appoints Diane Corner of United Kingdom Deputy Special Representative For MINUSCA". un.org. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
- ^ Corner, Diane Louise, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
- ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Diane Corner of United Kingdom Deputy Special Representative for MINUSCA | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". www.un.org. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ^ "Leadership". MINUSCA. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "No. 62310". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 June 2018. p. B23.
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