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FCDO business appointment rules advice, October to December 2023

Updated 21 March 2024
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Full Name Of Applicant Title Of Former Civil Service Role Date Left/Retired From The Civil Service New Employer New Appointment/Employment Department's Decision On Application
David Moran Regional Climate/Energy Ambassador (COP26) for Europe, Central Asia, Turkey and Iran (SCS1) 24/08/2023 Caspian Policy Center (CPC) Informed officer started role in November 2023. New Appointment: UK Adviser to a non-profit American NGO thinktank specialising in US relations with the Caspian region (primarily Central Asia, South Caucasus and Turkey). It convenes events in the States and the Caspian region and involves senior US government participants. It also organises meetings in DC and Caspian capitals. For 24 months following your voluntary exist from the FCDO, you should not draw on (disclose or use for the benefit of yourself or the organisation to which this advice refers) any privileged information available to you from your time as a Civil Servant; and For 24 months following your voluntary exit from the FCDO, you should not become personally involved in lobbying HMG on behalf of your new employers.   Lobbying in this context means that you should not engage in communication with Government (including Ministers, special advisers and officials) with a view to influencing a Government decision or policy in relation to their own interests, or the interests of the organisation by which you are employed, or to whom you are contracted.  The lobbying ban is not seeking to prevent communications with Government which might be described as being in the normal course of business, for example where the Government holds regular stakeholder events with an industry or sector, or where the purpose of any dealings is to take forward an existing Government policy or negotiations.