Derek Leask
Male, Person
1948 –
Who is Derek Leask?
Derek Leask is a New Zealand diplomat, since March 2008 the High Commissioner from New Zealand to the United Kingdom, and concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Ireland and High Commissioner to Nigeria. Leask is a career diplomat, who joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1969. Before becoming Commissioner, he was Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Wellington. He served as Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels from 1994 to 1999, and was earlier posted to Suva, Ottawa and London, between 1985 and 1989.
Leask was born in Wellington, and has degrees from Victoria University of Wellington, and the University of Canterbury.
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- Born
- 1948
New Zealand - Education
- University of Canterbury
- Victoria University of Wellington
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on July 23, 2013
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