(Robert) Leigh Turner is a UK Government civil servant who became British Ambassador to Ukraine, resident in Kiev, on 14 June 2008[1][2]
Leigh Turner's previous job was as Director of Overseas Territories[3] at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was also Commissioner for both the British Indian Ocean Territory[4] and the British Antarctic Territory,[5] equivalent to non-resident governor for both territories.
Born in 1958, he graduated from Cambridge University in 1979 and joined the Civil Service as an administrative trainee the same year. After working in the Departments of Transport and Environment, and the Treasury, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983 and has since had postings in Austria, Russia and Germany. [6]
Leigh Turner is listed for the first time in the 2008 edition of Who's Who (UK), under his full name of Robert Leigh Turner.[7] Whilst on unpaid leave, between 2002 and 2006, he wrote travel articles for the Financial Times, The Boston Globe and other newspapers[8][9][10][11][12] and some fiction[13]
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