Sir Tim Hitchens | |
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President of Wolfson College, Oxford | |
Assumed office 1 May 2018 | |
Preceded by | Hermione Lee |
British Ambassador to Japan | |
In office 2012–2016 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | David Cameron Theresa May |
Preceded by | David Warren |
Succeeded by | Paul Madden |
Assistant Private Secretary to the Sovereign | |
In office 1999–2002 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Mary Francis |
Succeeded by | Sir Christopher Geidt |
Personal details | |
Born | Timothy Mark Hitchens 1962 (age 61–62) London, England |
Alma mater | Dulwich College University of Cambridge |
Sir Timothy Mark Hitchens, KCVO, CMG (born 1962) is a British diplomat and a former Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen Elizabeth II, in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, 1999–2002.
Hitchens was seconded from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to which he returned to become Head of the Africa Department (Equatorial).[1][2] He had been First Secretary Political and Information, British High Commission, Islamabad and speechwriter for Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.