Helen Horn joined the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1981. Postings have taken her to Poland, Dubai, Switzerland and Bangladesh, and special project work to the G7 Summit in London and the UN Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio. In 1992, she was posted as Deputy Head of Mission to Kinshasa. Following a posting in Vienna, she is now in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was awarded an MBE in 1994.
