Roger Carrick

Sir Roger Carrick KCMG LVO (born 13 October 1937) is a former British diplomat and an author and business adviser.

Career

Roger John Carrick was educated at Isleworth Grammar School (now Isleworth and Syon School). He passed the examination for the Foreign Service in 1956 but spent only 11 days there before departing for National Service in the Royal Navy 1956–58, during which he learnt Russian. He then returned to the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO) and was sent to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London in 1961 to do a degree course in Bulgarian language in one year. He served at Sofia, Paris and Singapore, then was a visiting fellow at the Institute of International Studies at University of California, Berkeley, 1977–78. Later he was Consul-General at Chicago 1985–88, Assistant Under-Secretary (Economic) at the FCO 1988–90, Ambassador to Indonesia 1990–94[1] and High Commissioner to Australia 1994–97.

After a farewell tour of Australia in the High Commission's gold-coloured Rolls-Royce Silver Spur,[2] Carrick retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1997 at the statutory age of 60. He has been chairman of various companies including Strategy International and Lime Finance.[3]

Carrick was appointed LVO in 1972[4] and CMG in the New Year Honours of 1983,[5] and knighted KCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1995.[6]

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
William White
Ambassador to Indonesia
1990–1994
Succeeded by
Graham Burton
Preceded by
Sir Brian Barder
High Commissioner to Australia
1994–1997
Succeeded by
Alex Allan
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