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Leigh Turner was born on 1958 in United Kingdom, is a British diplomat. Discover Leigh Turner's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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1958

Robert Leigh Turner (born 13 March 1958) is a writer and British former diplomat.

Born in March 1958, he graduated from Downing College, Cambridge in 1979, joining the Civil Service as an administrative trainee the same year.

1983

After working in the Departments of Transport and Environment, and the Treasury, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983 and had postings in Austria, Russia, Germany, Ukraine and Turkey before returning to Vienna.

2002

Whilst on unpaid leave, between 2002 and 2006, he wrote travel articles for the Financial Times, The Boston Globe and other newspapers.

2006

From 2006 to 2008 he was Director, Overseas Territories in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory; and Commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory.

2008

From June 2008 to July 2012 he was British ambassador to Ukraine, resident in Kyiv.

2012

From September 2012 to July 2016 Turner was British Consul-General in Istanbul, a post which included responsibility for UK Trade and Investment work in Turkey, South Caucasus, Central Asia and Ukraine.

2014

Turner was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to British interests in Ukraine and Turkey.

Turner was succeeded as Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna by Lindsay Skoll in September 2021.

He then retired from the Diplomatic Service.

As Ambassador, Turner wrote and published fiction under the name Robert Pimm.

Since his retirement he continues to write a blog and has published several novels and a collection of short stories under his own name.

His latest book (April 2023) is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Diplomacy - Wie Diplomatie die Welt erklärt", a diplomatic and life handbook published in German by Czernin Verlag, Vienna.

2016

His final role was British Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna from August 2016 to September 2021.