Barney Smith (diplomat)
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Lloyd Barnaby "Barney" Smith CMG (born 21 July 1945) is a retired British diplomat.
Career
Smith was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1968 and served in Bangkok, Paris, Dublin, Brussels and Bangkok (with a year at the École nationale d'administration in Paris). He was ambassador to Nepal 1995–99 and ambassador to Thailand (concurrently non-resident ambassador to Laos) 2000–03. He was editor of Asian Affairs 2005–16. He was a non-executive director 2006–14, and chairman 2011–14, of Coastal Energy, an oil and gas company working in Thailand and Malaysia[1] which was bought by CEPSA in 2014.
References
- SMITH, Lloyd Barnaby, (Barney), Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, 2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2015)
- ^ "Coastal Energy: Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 9 September 2013.
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from October 2016
- Use British English from October 2016
- 1945 births
- Living people
- People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
- Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford
- Members of HM Diplomatic Service
- École nationale d'administration alumni
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Nepal
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Thailand
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Laos
- 20th-century British diplomats