Barbara Woodward
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Her Excellency Dame Barbara Woodward DCMG OBE |
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| British Ambassador to China | |
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Assumed office 19 February 2015 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Sir Sebastian Wood |
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Barbara Janet Woodward May 29, 1961 Gipping, Suffolk, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater |
University of St Andrews Yale University |
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| Traditional Chinese | 吳百納 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 吴百纳 | ||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Wú Bǎinà |
| Bopomofo | ㄨˊ ㄅㄞˇ ㄋㄚˋ |
Dame Barbara Janet Woodward DCMG OBE (Chinese: 吳百納, born 29 May 1961) is a British diplomat and China expert. She serves as the British Ambassador to China since February 2015 and is the first woman to hold this position.
Woodward undertook her undergraduate degree at the University of St Andrews, Scotland before going on to study International Relations at Yale University.
Dame Barbara joined the FCO in 1994. She has worked in China, Russia, the EU and at the UN. From 2003 to 2009 she worked in Beijing, first as a Political Counsellor, then across the whole UK-China relationship as Deputy Head of Mission, including during the Olympics. Prior to her current posting, Woodward was Director General for Economic & Consular Affairs.
Barbara Janet Woodward was born to Arthur Claude Woodward (1921 – 1992) and Rosemary Monica Gabrielle Fenton in Gipping, Suffolk, United Kingdom on 29 May 1961. Barbara's father participated in World War II as a member of the Suffolk Regiment and was conferred the Military Cross by the British Government on 21 December 1944 for his contributions in the war in northwest Europe. Her father, a surveyor himself, was elected Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRIC) after the war.
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