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Management Consular Officers Around the World
There are about 344 Management Consular Officers (MCOs) in Canada who officially joined the Foreign Service ranks in 2015, and we each have a different path that brought us to the stream. We’ve all learned different lessons about what makes this career…
Of Governors General and Grown Men
It was early spring in Gallipoli. Aussies, Kiwis, Brits, Turks and others had gathered to commemorate one of the bloodiest, tragic and yet nation-building battles of WWI. The Governor General of New Zealand, the distinguished jurist Dame Silvia Cartwright, presided over the…
David Anido
Editor’s Note: David Anido’s passing saddened many in the foreign service for reasons that are made obvious in the heartfelt tribute to him below provided by his family. That is especially true for those of us at bout, past and present. David…
Red-Faced in a Dark Suit
At the end of the 1970s, I acted, for a brief period, as Chargé in our High Commission in Lagos. I had not had much use up until that time for a western-style dress suit since we all wore what were known…
Managing Foreign Affairs at the Millennium – The Kiwi Revolution
At 03:59:46 AM Chatam Island time Saturday 1 January, 2000 the first rays of the millennium will be seen from atop Mount Hokipa, Chatam Island, New Zealand. Given the island’s unique location east of 180 east longitude but west of the International…
