Friday 16 October 2009 17.00

Venue: Brasenose College Lexture Room XI

Organised by Brasenose College

Speaker: Edward Chaplin (Fmr Ambassador to Iraq, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Italian Republic)

In 1979 Edward Chaplin was Private Secretary to Lord Soames. Soames was appointed Governor of Rhodesia to implement the Lancaster House agreements and bring the country to independence as Zimbabwe in 1980.

Mr Chaplin was Head of the FCO’s Middle East Department, at a time dominated by Iraq and Iran. He was appointed Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 2000, and then recalled in 2002 to serve as the FCO’s Director for the Middle East and North Africa.

In 2004, after the demise of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Mr Chaplin was appointed British Ambassador to Iraq, re-establishing the Embassy after a 13-year break in relations between the two countries.

Which all leaves Edward Chaplin qualified to talk on his chosen subject: ’Dealing with Dictators’.

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