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'''Sir Stephen Wall''' GCMG, LVO (born 1947) is a retired diplomat, and Chair of Council and LGBT Equality Champion at [[University College London]].
 
'''Sir Stephen Wall''' GCMG, LVO (born 1947) is a retired diplomat, and Chair of Council and LGBT Equality Champion at [[University College London]].
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==Biography==
  
 
He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1968.<ref name=TreatyofRome>http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/conferences/treatyofrome/stephenwall.aspx "Sir Stephen Wall, GCMG LVO" University of Edinburgh School of Law</ref> His early postings included the United Nations, Addis Ababa and Paris.<ref name=TreatyofRome/> On his return to London in 1974, he worked in the Foreign Office News Department and was later seconded to the press office of James Callaghan, who was then Prime Minister.<ref name=NewStatesman>http://www.newstatesman.com/200510170041 "Uncivil servants. Former special adviser Stephen Wall describes life inside the No 10 media machine" ''New Statesman'' 17 October 2005</ref> He subsequently served as Assistant Private Secretary to David Owen, the Foreign Secretary.<ref name=TreatyofRome/>
 
He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1968.<ref name=TreatyofRome>http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/conferences/treatyofrome/stephenwall.aspx "Sir Stephen Wall, GCMG LVO" University of Edinburgh School of Law</ref> His early postings included the United Nations, Addis Ababa and Paris.<ref name=TreatyofRome/> On his return to London in 1974, he worked in the Foreign Office News Department and was later seconded to the press office of James Callaghan, who was then Prime Minister.<ref name=NewStatesman>http://www.newstatesman.com/200510170041 "Uncivil servants. Former special adviser Stephen Wall describes life inside the No 10 media machine" ''New Statesman'' 17 October 2005</ref> He subsequently served as Assistant Private Secretary to David Owen, the Foreign Secretary.<ref name=TreatyofRome/>

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Sir Stephen Wall GCMG, LVO (born 1947) is a retired diplomat, and Chair of Council and LGBT Equality Champion at University College London.

Biography

He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1968.[1] His early postings included the United Nations, Addis Ababa and Paris.[1] On his return to London in 1974, he worked in the Foreign Office News Department and was later seconded to the press office of James Callaghan, who was then Prime Minister.[2] He subsequently served as Assistant Private Secretary to David Owen, the Foreign Secretary.[1]

Wall spent four years at the British Embassy in Washington from 1979 to 1983, when he returned to the Foreign Office.[1] He was Private Secretary to successive Foreign Secretaries from 1988 to 1991 and Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from 1991 to 1993.[2]

Wall was sent as Ambassador to Portugal in 1993, and he remained there until 1995, when he was named as Britain's Permanent Representative to the European Union.[3] He returned to London in 2000 to takes charge of the Cabinet Office's European Secretariat. He remained in that post until 2004, and during that period he was EU adviser to Tony Blair.[3] He was principal adviser to Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster from June 2004 to June 2005.[4]

Sir Stephen Wall is chairman of Cumberland Lodge, an educational charity initiating fresh debate on the burning questions facing society.[5]

Bibliography

  • A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair (2008)[6]

References

Partly based on the Wikipedia article of the same name.

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/conferences/treatyofrome/stephenwall.aspx "Sir Stephen Wall, GCMG LVO" University of Edinburgh School of Law
  2. 2.0 2.1 http://www.newstatesman.com/200510170041 "Uncivil servants. Former special adviser Stephen Wall describes life inside the No 10 media machine" New Statesman 17 October 2005
  3. 3.0 3.1 http://www.bnegroup.org/about/people/sir-stephen-wall/ "Sir Stephen Wall" Business for New Europe
  4. http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2007/11/spinning-against-vatican.html "Spinning against the Vatican" The hermeneutic of continuity 1 December 2007
  5. http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/aboutus/trustees_of_cumberland_lodge Cumberland Lodge: Trustees
  6. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/apr/26/politics2 "'Are Eu ready?' No, we're not" Denis MacShane, The Guardian26 April 2008