HM Ambassador, Ian Alan Worthington OBE, arrived in the Dominican Republic in November 2006 and presented his credentials to the President of the Dominican Republic Dr. Leonel Fernández Reyna 8 December 2006. Also presented these credentials to Haitian President Rene Preval 27 January 2007.

 

Born 9 August 1958

 

He has been Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Dominican Republic since December 2006 and and Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Haiti since January 2007.

Educated at StockportSchool, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1977.  In 1979 he undertook Russian language training prior to his appointment as Third Secretary Scientific in Moscow in 1980.  In 1982 he served in Lusaka for three years before returning to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a Second Secretary and Press Officer.

 

From 1988 -1991 he was Second Secretary Commercial in Seoul. In 1992 he opened the newly created British Embassy in Vilnius and served for a short time as Deputy Head of Mission. Later in 1992 he was transferred to Kingston as Second Secretary (Political) with special responsibility for Haiti.  In 1995 he opened the British Trade Office in Ekaterinburg and later became the first Consul General there.

 

In 1998 he returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as an Inspector and led one of the overseas teams, which inspected 44 different Posts in the three years to 2001.

 

In 1999 he was awarded an OBE by HM The Queen.

 

In October 2001 he became the Head of the Trade and Investment Section of the British Embassy in Berlin.

 

Ian is unmarried.  His interests include walking, scuba diving and family history.