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FCO ministers' meetings - October to December 2016
Updated 30 March 2017
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| Minister | Date | Name of organisation or individual | Purpose of meeting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 03-Oct-16 | Roundtable with members of the Board of Cayman Finance | To discuss transparency, beneficial ownership and bank derisking |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 13-Oct-16 | Serbian Patriarch Irinej | To discuss Freedom of Religion or Belief |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 18-Oct-16 | The Church Times | To discuss Freedom of Religion or Belief |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 18-Oct-16 | Metropolitan Hilarion | To discuss Freedom of Religion or Belief |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 19-Oct-16 | Several senior religious figures and media outlets (junior level reporters) | Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 20-Oct-16 | Dr. Nezar Ismet Taib | To discuss Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict in Iraq |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 24-Oct-16 | Doughty Street Group | To dicuss Global LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender rights |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 31-Oct-16 | Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) | Event at LSE London School of Economics on Women, Peace and Security |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 15-Nov-16 | NGO round table (various NGOs Non Government Organisations working on older person issues, at working level) | To discuss Rights of the Older Person |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 16-Nov-16 | NGO round table (various conflict/peacekeeping NGOs Non Government Organisations, at working level) | To discuss Peacekeeping |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 23-Nov-16 | Vijay Krishnarayan, Commonwealth Foundation | To discuss Commonwealth Development Programmes |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 23-Nov-16 | Madeline Rees, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom | To discuss Women, Peace and Security |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 24-Nov-16 | Lee Davies, Women's Empowerment Network | To discuss Women, Peace and Security |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 07-Dec-16 | NGO Non Government Organisations round table (various NGOs working on Burma, at working level) | To discuss forthcoming trip to Burma |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 07-Dec-16 | Kate Allen, Amnesty International | Amnesty International Human Rights Day Reception (made a speech) |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 08-Dec-16 | Various NGOs and Diplomatic Core (200 attendees) | International Human Rights Day Reception (FCO hosted) |
| Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE | 20-Dec-16 | Kathryne Bomberger, Director of International Commission for Missing Persons | Signing future funding agreement |
| Alok Sharma MP | 19-Oct-16 | Rentala Chandrasekhar (President) and Shivendra Singh (Vice President and Head - Global Trade Development), NASSCOM - National Association of Software and Services Companies | To discuss UK/India bilateral issues |
| Alok Sharma MP | 19-Oct-16 | Duncan Fulton (Head of Government Relations), De La Rue | To discuss UK/India bilateral issues |
| Alok Sharma MP | 22-Oct-16 | Chandrajit Banerjee (Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry) | To discuss UK/India bilateral issues during official visit to India |
| Alok Sharma MP | 22-Oct-16 | Karan Mittal, CEO Chief Executive Officer Mittal Corporation | To discuss UK/India bilateral issues during official visit to India |
| Alok Sharma MP | 22-Oct-16 | Amit Kiran Singh, Chair International Spirits & Wine Association of India | To discuss UK/India bilateral issues during official visit to India |
| Alok Sharma MP | 26-Oct-16 | Shaun Kingsbury, Chief Executive Green Investment Bank | To discuss UK/India bilateral issues |
| Alok Sharma MP | 31-Oct-16 | Mr G P Hinduja (Co-Chairman), Prakash Hinduja (Chairman (Europe)) and Mr Rakesh Gupta (President) Hinduja Group | To discuss UK/India bilateral issues |
| Alok Sharma MP | 03-Nov-16 | David McMillan, CEO Europe Aviva | To discuss UK/India bilateral issues |
| Alok Sharma MP | 03-Nov-16 | Jean-Sebastian Jacques (CEO, Rio Tinto) | To discuss UK/India bilateral issues |
| Alok Sharma MP | 03-Nov-16 | Nicholas Moore, CEO and Tim Bishop, Head of Macquarie Capital, Macquarie Bank | To discuss UK/Australia bilateral issues during official visit to Australia |
| Alok Sharma MP | 10-Nov-16 | Rob Morrison, Chairman of Kiwibank and HRL Morrison (SWF Sovereign Wealth Fund) | To discuss UK/New Zealand bilateral issues during official visit to New Zealand |
| Alok Sharma MP | 10-Nov-16 | Adrian Orr, CEO of NZ Super Fund and Chair of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) | To discuss UK/New Zealand bilateral issues during official visit to New Zealand |
| Alok Sharma MP | 17-Nov-16 | Lord Sassoon, Adam Keswick and Robert Garman (HK Land) | To discuss UK/Thailand business opportunities |
| Alok Sharma MP | 28-Nov-16 | Paul Sagoo, The Asian Award | To discuss the Asian Award |
| Alok Sharma MP | 30-Nov-16 | Lord Sassoon (Chairman) and Stephen Phillips (CEO), China Britain Business Council | To discuss UK/China business opportunities |
| Alok Sharma MP | 13-Dec-16 | Kevan Watts (Vice Chairman, Banking) HSBC | To discuss ASEAN issues (Association for South East Asian Nations) |
| Alok Sharma MP | 13-Dec-16 | Mr Sammy Lee (Property Developer entrepreneur) | To discuss UK/Hong Kong trade issues |
| Alok Sharma MP | 15-Dec-16 | Stephan Pouyat (Global Head of Capital Markets and Funds Services) and Sudip Chatterjee (Deputy Head of Global Capital Markets & Funds), Euroclear | To discuss UK/India trade issues |
| Alok Sharma MP | 19-Dec-16 | Nitin Palan (Neasden Temple) | To discuss Holi event at FCO |
| Alok Sharma MP | 20-Dec-16 | Jonathan Powell (Inter Mediate) | To discuss Burma |
| Tobias Ellwood MP | 04-Oct-16 | Meeting with Howard Borrington - MBDA Systems (missiles company) | To discuss their European and global business, as well as how they can assist the UK Government with their future defence priorities |
| Tobias Ellwood MP | 04-Oct-16 | Hayley Davidson - Crisis Action | To discuss ongoing crises in Syria, South Sudan and DRC |
| Tobias Ellwood MP | 10-Oct-16 | Steven Swinford - Daily Telegraph | Catch up on issues relating to Ministerial role |
| Tobias Ellwood MP | 26-Oct-16 | Ellen Stofan Chief NASA Scientist | to provide her with an overview of their exploration programme, including the astronaut programme on the ISS, future Mars sample return missions, and a future deep space habitat. |
| Tobias Ellwood MP | 11-Nov-16 | Meeting with Hugh Ward, of Saab Technologies UK Ltd | To discuss their ongoing security and defence work in Pakistan |
| Tobias Ellwood MP | 23-Nov-16 | BioEngineering | Aerial seeding: to discuss "tree missiles" |
| Tobias Ellwood MP | 24-Nov-16 | Bishop of Coventry | to discuss Iraq visit |
| Tobias Ellwood MP | 06-Dec-16 | Dominik Stillhart Ops Dir. ICRC | To discuss Yemen/IHL |
| Tobias Ellwood MP | 08-Dec-16 | meeting British-Syrian businessmen | To discuss Syria |
| Tobias Ellwood MP | 12-Dec-16 | Conservative Friends of Israel Annual Business Lunch | To discuss Israeli issues |
| Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan | 12-Oct-16 | Premier Oil, CEO, Tony Durrant. Also met Rockhopper Exploration PLC CEO Sam Moody during the same meeting. | Oil exploration in South America region |
| Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan | 13-Oct-16 | Head of Diageo business in Latin America and the Caribbean, Alberto Gavazzi | Barriers to trade |
| Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan | 14-Oct-16 | Former Kyrgyz President, Ms Roza Otunbaeva | Courtesy visit |
| Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan | 03-Nov-16 | Patrick Forbes, BBC | Brexit Documentary |
| Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan | 16-Nov-16 | Tanit Koch, Editor-in-Chief of Bild Zeitung | Brexit |
| Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan | 16-Nov-16 | James Landale, Diplomatic Editor BBC | Brexit |
| Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan | 22-Nov-16 | TUSIAD - Chair, Ms Cansen Basaran-Symes. Turkish CBI-equivalent | Negotiations |
| Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan | 22-Nov-16 | President, BP Russia, David Campbell | Business in Russia and Europe |
| Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan | 07-Dec-16 | Alexander Nix, CEO Cambridge Analytica | To discuss the US election result and build senior contacts with the transition team |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 06-Oct-16 | Rt Hon Tony Blair | To discuss the Middle East Peace Process |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 15-Nov-16 | Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General nominee | To discuss United Nations issues |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 16-Nov-16 | Mike Adamson, Chief Executive British Red Cross | Foreign Secretary Advisory Group on Human Rights: to discuss the problems facing civil society in many countries, and seek advice on how we can respond. |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 16-Nov-16 | Kate Allen, Director Amnesty International | Foreign Secretary Advisory Group on Human Rights: to discuss the problems facing civil society in many countries, and seek advice on how we can respond. |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 16-Nov-16 | Dr Chaloka Beyani, UNSpecial Representive on Internally Displaced Persons | Foreign Secretary Advisory Group on Human Rights: to discuss the problems facing civil society in many countries, and seek advice on how we can respond. |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 16-Nov-16 | Benjamin Ward, Deputy Director Human Rights Watch | Foreign Secretary Advisory Group on Human Rights: to discuss the problems facing civil society in many countries, and seek advice on how we can respond. |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 16-Nov-16 | Sir Jeffrey Jowell, Former Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law | Foreign Secretary Advisory Group on Human Rights: to discuss the problems facing civil society in many countries, and seek advice on how we can respond. |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 16-Nov-16 | Frances House, Chief Executive Institute for Human Rights and Business | Foreign Secretary Advisory Group on Human Rights: to discuss the problems facing civil society in many countries, and seek advice on how we can respond. |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 16-Nov-16 | Thomas Hughes, Chief Executive Article 19 | Foreign Secretary Advisory Group on Human Rights: to discuss the problems facing civil society in many countries, and seek advice on how we can respond. |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 16-Nov-16 | Dr Nazila Ghanea, University of Oxford | Foreign Secretary Advisory Group on Human Rights: to discuss the problems facing civil society in many countries, and seek advice on how we can respond. |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 16-Nov-16 | Ruth Hunt, Chief executive, Stonewall | Foreign Secretary Advisory Group on Human Rights: to discuss the problems facing civil society in many countries, and seek advice on how we can respond. |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 16-Nov-16 | Mervyn Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Solidarity Worldwide | Foreign Secretary Advisory Group on Human Rights: to discuss the problems facing civil society in many countries, and seek advice on how we can respond. |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 08-Dec-16 | Alexander Nix, CEO Cambridge Analytica | To discuss US political situation |
| Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP | 20-Dec-16 | Shanker Singham | To discuss post Brexit issues |