{"id":57940,"date":"2015-11-19T23:52:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T21:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-botswana\/"},"modified":"2015-11-19T23:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T21:52:06","slug":"change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Change of British High Commissioner to Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> LONDON, United Kingdom, November 19, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ms Katy Ransome has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Botswana in succession to Mr Nicholas Pyle OBE, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Ms Ransome will take up her appointment during February 2016.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Curriculum Vitae<\/p>\n<p>Full name: Katharine Ransome<\/p>\n<p>Date \u2013 present FCO, Head of Network Resources Team, Europe Directorate<\/p>\n<p>2010 \u2013 2012 British Office for Somalia, Deputy Head of Mission<br \/>2009 \u2013 2010 Antananarivo, Political Officer<br \/>2007 \u2013 2008 Kabul, Head of Military  Political Team<br \/>2006 \u2013 2007 Kabul, Regional Affairs Advisor<br \/>2004 \u2013 2006 FCO, Head of European Defence Policy, Security Policy Department<br \/>2004 Madrid, First Secretary<br \/>2001 \u2013 2003 FCO, Head, Turkey Team, EU-Mediterranean Team<br \/>1997 \u2013 2001 Budapest, Second Secretary<br \/>1995 \u2013 1996 FCO, Desk Officer, G7\/8 Team<br \/>1995 Joined FCO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, United Kingdom, November 19, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Ms Katy Ransome has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Botswana in succession to Mr Nicholas Pyle OBE, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Ms Ransome will take up her appointment during February 2016. Curriculum Vitae Full name: Katharine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-57940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}