5th July 2021 - Ambassadors

Christopher Meyer, UK American Ambassador 1997–2003, describing his role, wrote, ’You must be able to negotiate, to win the confidence of the powerful and influence them, to understand what makes a foreign society tick, to analyse information and report it accurately and quickly, including what your own government does not want to hear; you need a quick mind, a hard head, a strong stomach, a warm smile and a cold eye’.*