Peter Carter (diplomat)
Peter Leslie Carter (born 19 November 1956) is a British diplomat, currently serving as Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia.
Carter was educated at The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells and attended New College, Oxford where he studied Modern Languages. He then worked for Arthur Andersen before moving to Italy, where he became a language teacher.
In 1984, he joined HM Diplomatic Service with postings at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London and New Delhi, and in 1996 went to Brussels, where he became responsible for the EU's Middle East policy. He returned to London in 1998, where he negotiated the deal between North Korea and the United Kingdom which established diplomatic relations between the two countries. In 2001, Carter became Consul General at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, and then in 2006 he served as Consul General in Milan. In December 2007 he was confirmed as the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Estonia.
References
- Sources
- Biography on the British Embassy's website
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