Sir Tim Hitchens & David Quan 权丁文 | President of Wolfson College, Oxford, UK Ambassador to Japan, HM Queen's Asst Private Secretary, 35 Years UK Diplomatic Service, Chair Oxford Student Mental Health, Japanese Haiku Poet | Coffee's on Me, David Quan 权丁文

Full video interview with Sir Tim Hitchens available on: www.CoffeesOnMeDavidQuan.com ! Guest Sir Tim Hitchens: "It was wonderful to sit on a manicured Oxford College lawn and chew the cud over almost three hours. I think we both feel great affection for our College (Wolfson), and that let us both relax into the Coffee's on Me, David Quan 权丁文 conversation. You’d done your research so well, and you pinpointed moments in my life that added up to a story I hadn’t before told. Thank you David, and I hope you carry on giving people the chance to talk about and through their lives; I hope those listening and watching can take something away which strikes a chord with them." --- Sir Tim Hitchens has served as President of Wolfson College, Oxford since 2018, following thirty-five years in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. Born in 1962, he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature as a scholar, and joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983. His postings traced an unusually broad arc. Overseas: Tokyo as Third Secretary in the late 1980s; Islamabad and Kabul as Head of Political Section in the mid-1990s; Paris as Deputy Ambassador; and Tokyo again, this time as British Ambassador to Japan from 2012 to 2016. In Whitehall: Private Secretary to the Minister for Europe, Speechwriter to the Foreign Secretary, Assistant Private Secretary to Her Majesty The Queen from 1999 to 2002, and successively European Political Director and Africa Director. He concluded his Foreign Office career as Chief Executive of the 2018 Commonwealth Summit. Beyond Wolfson, Sir Tim chairs the Daiwa [DYE-wah] Anglo-Japanese Foundation, which funds young people to travel to Japan; serves as a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner; chaired the Special Committee to Review Historical Inequalities in Commonwealth Commemoration; and chairs Oxford's Joint Committee on Student Mental Health. A Japanese-language haiku [HY-koo] poet whose collection Twaiku [TWY-koo] was published in Japan in 2016, and the author of an essay on the Pakistani artist Ali Kazim [AH-lee kah-ZEEM] for the Ashmolean [ash-MOLE-ee-un] Museum in 2022, he speaks Japanese and French at Foreign Office advanced level. He is married to Sara, a psychotherapist, and they have two children, Gemma and Matthew. --- WHY? COFFEE'S ON ME, DAVID QUAN 权丁文 TL;DR: To process my emotions after a grueling campaign for President of The Cambridge Union, I reflected upon the influences of my late Grandfather and wrote him a letter: www.coffeesonmedavidquan.com. Drawing inspiration from him, I hope to learn more from others through genuine discussions – giving listeners heartfelt conversations filled with authentic insights, and giving guests legacy-worthy interviews to treasure. After completing over 100 interviews and reaching more than 20,000 listeners in Season 1, I now return with deep gratitude and renewed enthusiasm! Join the ‘Coffee’s on Me, David Quan’ Podcast Community - 1 Gift in Newsletter, 10+ socials, 100+ interviews, 25,000+ contributors - for more opportunities 💙