Harriet Cross

Harriet Cross is a British diplomat who is the High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago (since September 2020).[1] She was Consul-General in Boston, Massachusetts from 2016 to August 2020 (succeeding Susie Kitchens)[2] and Deputy Ambassador at the British Embassy in Yemen before that.[3][4]

She was the fourth woman to manage the Boston consulate and the first consul since 1972 to represent the United Kingdom outside the European Union. While in Yemen, ongoing conflict there compelled her to organize the evacuation of the Embassy, and she subsequently spent the rest of her posting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Cross earned a master's degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University (2019, Global Master of Arts Program (GMAP)),[4] a First Class honours degree from the University of Warwick in Politics with French and an Executive Certificate in Management & Leadership from MIT.[3]

References
  1. Uebele, Hannah (4 August 2020). "British Consul General To New England Takes On New Appointment". WGBH News. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  2. Shuman, Cary (19 August 2016). "A Beacon of Diplomacy:Kitchens Concludes Distinguished Tenure as Consul General". Beacon Hill Times. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  3. "Harriet Cross, British Consul General in Boston". gov.uk.
  4. "Harriet Cross". The Fletcher School. Tufts. Retrieved 26 November 2020.


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