Veronica Sutherland

Veronica Sutherland

Dame Veronica Evelyn Sutherland, DBE, CMG, Hon LL.D (born 25 April 1939) is a former British career diplomat with considerable Commonwealth experience and the current President of the Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge

She was appointed Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General with responsibility for economic and social affairs. She was the first woman to hold this post and to serve the Commonwealth at such a high rank. A former British Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, Sutherland has had a distinguished career with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Britain, serving in a variety of senior roles during her 30-year tenure. She took up her Commonwealth post in February 1999, succeeding the retiring Sir Humphrey Maud, KCMG saying "During the course of my lifetime the Commonwealth has left behind its imperial past and grown into a mature and dynamic, modern organisation of 54 equal and sovereign nations. I am excited by the prospect of making an active contribution to the Commonwealth as an increasing force for good in the world."

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*http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/current/special/03/16.html
*http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Andes/9522/latest.htm
*http://www.thecommonwealth.org/press/34582/140830/first_woman_commonwealth_deputy_secretary_general.htm
*http://www.irish-association.org/archives/veronica_sutherland04_04.html


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