Dominick chilcott biography
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A Letter space HC Priest Chilcott
by Vadivetkaran, January 14, 2007
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An Unfastened Letter manage the Rash British Pump up session Commissioner Mr. Dominick Chilcott
Honorable Sir,
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Sir Dominick Chilcott KCMG
Sir Dominick Chilcott is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1982. He has served as:
- High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Maldives (2006 to 2007)
- Deputy Ambassador to the United States (2008 to 2011)
- Ambassador to Iran (for six weeks only in late 2011 - the posting was ended by the attack on the embassy)
- Ambassador to Ireland. (2012 to 2016)
- UK’s Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey (2018 to 2022)
In addition to those postings, Dominick has served in Ankara (1985-8), Lisbon (1993-5) and at the UK’s mission to the European Union in Brussels (1998-2002).
Between overseas assignments, Dominick has worked in the FCDO in London on European, African and Middle Eastern affairs. He has been a private secretary to two Foreign Secretaries, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and the late Mr Robin Cook. He was director of the Iraq Policy Unit in 2003 and director for bilateral relations with European countries from 2003-6.
Dominick read philosophy and theology at Oxford University.
Before Oxford, Dominick spent a year in the Royal Navy as a midshipman. He went to school at St Joseph’s College, Ipswich.
Dominick’s hobbies include walking, sport of all kinds, reading, history, music and the theatre.
Follow Dominick on Twitter @DChilc
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Academic & Research Staff
Lutgarde Vandeput
BIAA Director
Lutgarde Vandeput is a classical archaeologist, educated at the University of Leuven in Belgium. She has done fieldwork in Turkey since she was a student. She participated in the excavations at Sagalassos and also in the Pisidia Survey Project, which she then directed between 1998 and 2012. She was involved in the Aspendos Archaeological Project until 2016. Lutgarde specialises in the study of monumental architecture and urban development, as well as in survey archaeology. She has been on the faculty of the Universities of Leuven (Belgium) and Cologne (Germany), and has been the Director of the BIAA since 2006.
Fields of Expertise: Classical Archaeology; Ancient Roads and Routes; Cultural Heritage Management
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Further informationPeter Cherry
Assistant Director for Ottoman and Contemporary Türkiye
Peter Cherry received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2017. He joined the BIAA in 2017-18 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He was Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature at Bilkent University from 2018-2021, Visiting Lecturer at the University of West London from 2021-22, and worked as Communications and External Relations Officer for an NG