Ivo Mallet

Sir (William) Ivo Mallet GBE KCMG (7 April 1900 – 7 December 1988) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Yugoslavia and Spain.

Ivo Mallet was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford and joined the Diplomatic Service with the rank of Third Secretary in 1925. He served in Constantinople, Angora, Berlin and Rome before, at the end of 1938, being appointed assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. He held that post until 1941, then returned to the Foreign Office with the rank of acting Counsellor; at the end of the war he was Head of the Personnel Department of the Foreign Office. In 1946 he was appointed Consul-General at Tangier. In 1949 he returned to the Foreign Office as Assistant Under-Secretary. He was the UK representative at talks toward a peace treaty with Austria, although negotiations were slow due to the Cold War and the final Austrian State Treaty was signed only in 1955. Meanwhile Mallet served as ambassador to Yugoslavia 1951–54, where he was involved in lengthy negotiations on the fate of Trieste which at one point brought Italy and Yugoslavia close to war, and as ambassador to Spain 1954–60, also a difficult time under General Franco. In 1960 he retired to Switzerland where he died in 1988.

...
Wikipedia