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Christopher Geidt has been Deputy Private Secretary to The Queen since 2005.

Mr Geidt joined the Royal Household in 2002 after serving with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the United Nations in Sarajevo, Geneva and Brussels. He was Private Secretary to Carl Bildt, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Balkans, before taking a sabbatical year at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 2001. He was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen in 2002 in succession to Tim Hitchens who returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office following his secondment.

Mr Geidt is a graduate of King's College London, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was made an OBE in 1997.

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-'''Christopher Edward Wollaston Mackenzie Geidt''' has been [[Private Secretary to the Sovereign|Deputy Private Secretary]] to [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|The Queen]] since [[2005]]. He joined the [[Royal Household]] in September 2002 from the [[United Nations]] where he had been Private Secretary to the [[United Nations]] Secretary-General's Special Envoy in the Balkans, [[Carl Bildt]] (1997-2001).
+'''Christopher Geidt''' has been [[Private Secretary to the Sovereign|Deputy Private Secretary]] to [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|The Queen]] since [[2005]].
+Mr Geidt joined the [[Royal Household]] in 2002 after serving with the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] and the [[United Nations]] in [[Sarajevo]], [[Geneva]] and [[Brussels]].  He was [[Private Secretary]] to [[Carl Bildt]], the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the [[Balkans]], before taking a sabbatical year at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], in 2001.  He was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen in 2002 in succession to [[Tim Hitchens]] who returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office following his secondment.
+Mr Geidt is a graduate of [[King's College London]], and [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]].  He was made an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1997.
-When the initial appointment to the Royal Household was announced, 24 July 2002, Mr Geidt was undertaking research at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]]. He succeeded [[Tim Hitchens]], who returned to the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] at the end of his secondment.
-Geidt was born in 1961, and educated at [[King's College London]], and [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]], where he [[matriculated]] as a graduate student in 1991.
-From March 1988 to April 1990 he was Assistant to the [[Director]] of the [[Royal United Services Institute]], [[Whitehall]], responsible for fundraising. In 1989 he visited [[Cambodia]] at the invitation of the Hanoi Institute for International Relations to witness the withdrawal of [[Vietnam|Vietnamese]] troops from the country.
-In 1994 he was Political Liaison Officer for the [[European Commission]] Monitoring Mission in [[Sarajevo]]. Later he was Political Advisor to the European Co-Chairman of the International Conference on the Former [[Yugoslavia]], in [[Geneva]] (1995), then Private Secretary and Senior Advisor to the [[United Nations]] Secretary-General's High Representative in Bosnia (1996-97).
-He was made an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in [[1997]], and is married with one daughter.
-[[Category:1961 births|Geidt, Christopher]]
 [[Category:Living people|Geidt, Christopher]]
 [[Category:Alumni of King's College London|Geidt, Christopher]]