Date Posted: April 14, 2009.

Mr Alistair Harrison CVO will arrive in Anguilla on Sunday 19 April 2009 to take up his appointment as Governor. He will be accompanied by his wife Sarah and their three children Matilda (Tilly) aged 9, and twins Eliza and Ralph, aged 5. Mr Harrison was previously scheduled to arrive in Anguilla on 9 April but was delayed due to the sudden death of his father.


The family will travel from Princess Julianna Airport in St Maarten by Anguilla Air Services charter to Wallblake Airport and be met by the Acting Governor, the Chief Minister and the Commissioner of Police. Mr Harrison will be sworn in as Governor at the House of Assembly at 10.00am on Tuesday 21 April.

Mr Harrison has 30 years experience in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and has recently completed a three-year appointment to the British High Commission in Lusaka, Zambia as High Commissioner.

He has also spent time working in New York and Warsaw, as well as Policy Adviser for the European Commission in Brussels. Mr Harrison was most recently head of the Zimbabwe Unit in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Full name: Mr William Alistair Harrison
Date of Birth: 14 November 1954
 

• 2005-2008 British High Commissioner to the Republic of Zambia
• 2003-2005 Head of International Organisations Dept, FCO
• 2000-2003 UK Mission to the UN
• 1998-2000 Foreign Policy Adviser, European Commission, Brussels
• 1995-1998 Deputy Head of Mission, Warsaw
• 1992-1995 Deputy Head of Middle East Dept, FCO
• 1987-1992 First Secretary Economic, UK Mission to the UN, New York
• 1984-1986 Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary, FCO
• 1982-1984 Southern European Dept, FCO
• 1979-1982 Third then Second Secretary Chancery, Warsaw
• 1977- Entered FCO