Wikispooks wikispooks https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.33.2 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikispooks Wikispooks talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Property Property talk Form Form talk Concept Concept talk Document Document talk Wikipedia Wikipedia talk Test Test talk Widget Widget talk Campaign Campaign talk Module Module talk Gadget Gadget talk Gadget definition Gadget definition talk Sherard Cowper-Coles 0 541 248803 181974 2022-08-02T23:22:53Z Robin 120 Text replacement - " has served as " to " has been " wikitext text/x-wiki {{person |image=Sherard Cowper-Coles.jpg |interests= |constitutes=spook, diplomat, banker, businessman |description=[[Spook]]y UK diplomat |twitter=https://twitter.com/sherardcc |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherard_Cowper-Coles |powerbase=http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Sherard_Cowper-Coles |spouses=Bridget Mary Elliott |alma_mater=Hertford College (Oxford) |birth_date=1955-01-08 |birth_place=London, England |nationality=British |employment={{job |title=Non-executive director |employer=HSBC Bank Egypt |start=1 October 2014 |end= }}{{job |title=Business development director |employer=BAE Systems |start=2011 |end=2013 }}{{job |title=Chairman of Pitzhanger Manor Trust, |employer=HSBC |start=August 2012 |end=? }}{{job |title=British Ambassador to Afghanistan |start=15 May 2007 |end=2009 }}{{job |title=British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia |start=2003 |end=2006 }}{{job |title=British Ambassador to Israel |start=2001 |end=2003 }}{{job |title=Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary |start=1999 |end=2001 }} }} '''Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles''' is a UK [[spook]] who has held various diplomatic positions. ==Career== {{SMWQ |authors=Robert Fisk |text=Indeed, I remember way back in the late [[1970s]] - when I was [[Middle East]] correspondent for ''[[The Times]]'' - how a British diplomat in Cairo tried to persuade me to fire my local "stringer", an Egyptian Coptic woman who also worked as a correspondent for the [[Associated Press]] and who provided a competent coverage of the country when I was in Beirut. "She isn't much good," he said, and suggested I hire a young Englishwoman whom he knew and who - so I later heard - had close contacts in the [[Foreign Office]]. :I refused this [[spook]]y proposal. Indeed, I told The Times that I thought it was outrageous that a British diplomat should have tried to engineer the sacking of our part-timer in Cairo. ''The Times'''s foreign editor agreed. :But it just shows what diplomats can get up to. :And the name of that young British diplomat in Cairo back in the late 1970s? Why, Sherard Cowper-Coles, of course. |source_URL=http://web.archive.org/web/20091030110336/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-abu-henry-and-the-mysterious-silence-455301.html |date=30 June 2007 |source_name=The Independent |source_title='Abu Henry' and the mysterious silence }} ===UK/FCO=== Cowper-Coles joined the [[UK Foreign Office]] as a desk officer in the Republic of Ireland Department in 1977.<ref>[http://cherwell.larrytech.com/index.php?news=1424 Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles]. Cherwell24, 12 October 2007, accessed 28 March 2008.</ref> He was [[Third Secretary]] and later [[Second Secretary]] in [[Cairo]], 1980–1983, [[First Secretary]] in the Planning Staff of the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]], 1983–1985; Private Secretary to the Permanent [[Under-secretary]] of State, 1985–1987, First Secretary in Washington, 1987–1991, Assistant in the Security Policy Department of the FCO, 1991–1993, Resident Associate, [[International Institute for Strategic Studies]], 1993–1994; Head of the Hong Kong Department of the FCO, ====Paris==== 1994–1997, Political Counsellor in Paris. [[John Morgan]] charged in his 2012 book ''[[Paris-London Connection]]'' that Cowper-Coles was involved in the Paris side of the [[assassination of Diana Spencer]].<ref>https://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2012/princess-diana-murdered-by-senior-royals-new-book-reveals-0817/</ref><ref>https://princessdianadeaththeevidence.weebly.com/paris-london-connection.html</ref> 1997–1999; Principal Private Secretary to [[Robin Cook]], the [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]], 1999–2001. His first role as a head of mission was in Tel Aviv as the [[British Ambassador to Israel]] from 2001 to 2003. He was next appointed [[UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia]] in Riyadh, a post that he held until 2006. Since 15 May 2007 he has been ambassador to Afghanistan in Kabul. ===Arms industry=== In 2011 Cowper-Coles started work for [[BAE Systems]]. ===Banking=== Cowper-Coles was appointed a non-executive director of [[HSBC Bank Egypt]] on 1 October 2014. <ref> [http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=275098958&privcapId=23697602 Sherard Cowper-Coles], ''Bloomberg'', date, accesssed date </ref> ==Connections== *[[Michael Semple]] *[[Frank Gardner]], BBC Security Correspondent ==References== <references/> [[Category:Spooks|Cowper-Coles, Sherard]][[Category:Afghanistan|Cowper-Coles, Sherard]] ni7f41z6yylwfor1rffk6uho2xvboz5