WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1993
NEW POLITICAL ADVISER APPOINTED
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MR ROBERT PEIRCE HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO TAKE OVER THE POST OF POLITICAL ADVISER IN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT THIS SUMMER FROM MR WILLIAM EHRMAN, WHO WILL BE RETURNING TO THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (FCO) TO TAKE UP ANOTHER POST.
MR EHRMAN WILL LEAVE HONG KONG IN JULY AND MR PEIRCE WILL ARRIVE IN MID-AUGUST.
MR PEIRCE, AGED 38, IS AT PRESENT FIRST SECRETARY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK.
HE STUDIED CHINESE (PUTONGHUA) IN HONG KONG IN THE LATE 1970S, SERVED AS SECOND AND LATER FIRST SECRETARY IN PEKING FROM 1980 TO 1983, AS DEPUTY POLITICAL ADVISER IN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT FROM 1986 TO 1988, AND AS ASSISTANT PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE FOREIGN SECRETARY FROM 1988 UNTIL HE TOOK UP HIS PRESENT POST IN 1990.
HE IS MARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN.
FOLLOWING IS HIS CURRICULUM VITAE:
BORN MARCH 18, 1955 MARRIED 1978 (CHRISTINA}
ONE SON (ALEXANDER, 1986). ONE DAUGHTER (KATHERINE, 1988)
OXFORD UNIVERSITY (MODERN HISTORY), MA
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (CHINESE LANGUAGE}
SECOND, LATER FIRST SECRETARY, BRITISH EMBASSY, PEKING 1980-83
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA DEPARTMENT, FCO 1983-85
HONG KONG DEPARTMENT, FCO 1985
CABINET OFFICE 1985-86
DEPUTY POLITICAL ADVISER 1986-88
ASSISTANT PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE FOREIGN SECRETARY
(SIR GEOFFREY HOWE, THEN MR JOHN MAJOR, THEN MR DOUGLAS HURD) 1988-90
UK MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS 1990-93
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