Roger Carrick

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

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 and High Commissioner to Australia 1994–97.