Stephen Wright (diplomat)

Sir Stephen John Leadbetter Wright, KCMG (born 7 December 1946) is a retired British diplomat who was Chief Executive Officer of International Financial Services London from 2008 to 2010 and is currently a Senior Adviser to Mitsui & Co.

Born in Quito, Ecuador,[1] Wright was educated at Shrewsbury School and Queen's College, Oxford,[1] where he read modern history. He joined HM Diplomatic Service in 1968 and served in Havana, New York, Brussels, New Delhi, and Washington, D.C. He was Director for European Union Affairs at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) 1994–1996, deputy Under-Secretary at the FCO from 2000 to 2002, and Ambassador to Spain and the Principality of Andorra 2003–2007.[2] [3]

Since retiring from the Diplomatic Service in 2007, Wright has been a senior adviser to the Good Governance Group as well as CEO of International Financial Services London 2008–2010,[4] senior adviser to TheCityUK 2010–11, and Senior Adviser to Mitsui & Co Europe plc since 2008.[2]

Wright became a trustee of the Zurbaran Trust, part of the Auckland Project, in 2016; and Hon Secretary of the Pilgrims Society of Great Britain in 2017.

Soon after joining the diplomatic service, Wright married Georgina Butler,[5] and they had a son and a daughter.[3] The marriage was dissolved in 2000.[6] In 2002 he married Elizabeth Abbott (Abbey) Rosemont.

Wright’s recreations are music, opera, art, and rowing.[2]

References
  1. "An interview with Sir Stephen Wright KCMG". Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 7 July 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) from pr-inside.com
  2. WRIGHT, Sir Stephen (John Leadbetter), Who's Who 2012 (A & C Black, 2012); online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011, accessed 21 June 2012
  3. Diplomatic Service List, Vol. 36 (2001), p. 327: “Wright, Stephen... Chancery New Delhi 1988; Counsellor (External Relations) UKREP Brussels 1991; Director (EU Affairs) FCO 1994; Minister Washington 1997. Director (Wider Europe) FCO 1999; m 1970 Georgina Susan Butler (1d 1977; Is 1979)”
  4. Stephen Wright named CEO of International Financial Services London, 26 November 2007
  5. Helen McCarthy, Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat (2014), p. 293
  6. “Butler, HE Georgina Susan” in People of Today (2006), p. 245


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