Rupert Joe Fairfax Ainley
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Rupert Ainley is a British diplomat. Former Director Eastern Europe & Central Asia Directorate. Former NE Asia & China Director at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
His LinkedIn pages states:
- Experienced senior British diplomat, former Director for China & North East Asia. Fluent Mandarin, European security issues (working French), foreign policy, and energy/climate change. Strategic & compassionate leader, proud of having led teams through adversity. Previous head of UK's Energy & Climate Change Network in China, European Commission secondment, several roles in FCO Europe Directorate and Head of the Libya Team during the Arab Spring.[1]
Awards
- OBE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE AND OVERSEAS LIST Civil Division, Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, St. James’s Palace, London SW1, 17 June 2017. THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire: To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order: Rupert Joe Fairfax AINLEY First Secretary, British Embassy, Beijing, China. For services to UK energy security and to UK-China relations.[2]