Roger Carrick

Roger Carrick    (diplomat)
Born	13 October 1937
Alma mater	Isleworth Grammar School, Joint Services School for Linguists, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Former British ambassador to Indonesia and Australia  UK/High Commissioner/Australia  In office 1994 - 1997  UK/Ambassador/Indonesia  In office 1990 - 1994

Sir Roger Carrick is a former British diplomat and an author and business adviser.

Education

Carrick was educated at Isleworth Grammar School (now Isleworth and Syon School).

Career

He passed the examination for Her Majesty's Foreign Service, later Diplomatic Service in 1956, but spent only 11 days there before departing for National Service in the Royal Navy 1956–58, during which he learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists. He then returned to the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO). He was in London, and was sent to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at London University in 1961 to do a degree course in Bulgarian language and literature in one year. He served at Sofia, Paris and Singapore, was a visiting fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, 1977–78, and a Political Counsellor at the Washington Embassy 1978–82. After further service at the FCO, he was made Consul-General at Chicago 1985–88, Assistant Under-Secretary (Economic) at the FCO 1988–90, Ambassador to Indonesia 1990–94 and High Commissioner to Australia 1994–97.

After a farewell tour of Australia in the High Commission's champagne oyster-coloured Rolls-Royce Silver Spur IV. Carrick retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1997 at the then mandatory age of 60. He has been chairman of various companies including Strategy International and Lime Finance.

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