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John Everard, Great Britain’s ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea since February 2006, will discuss the current situation in North Korea, changes in its society and the problems that the country faces.

Friday, July 11, 2008

with

John Everard
British Ambassador to the DPRK

About the Speaker
John Everard has served as Great Britain’s ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea since February 2006. He began his career with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1979, dealing with issues related to China and Taiwan. After serving in the political and commercial sections of the British embassies in Vienna and Santiago, Chile, Everard was tasked to set up Britain's new embassy in Belarus in 1993. Following the Dayton peace agreement in 1995, he led the OSCE team implementing elections in Bosnia. Then, from 1996 to 1998, he worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London on issues related to West Africa, where he was closely involved in the international efforts to respond to the coup in Sierra Leone. Everard returned to Asia in 1998 to head the political section of the British embassy in Beijing. In 2001 he was appointed as Britain's ambassador to Uruguay.

Everard studied French, German and Chinese at Emmanuel College Cambridge from 1975 to 1978, and then studied Chinese history and economics at Beijing University from 1978 to 1979. He holds an MBA from Manchester Business School.

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