The 2019 Annual Dinner – with our Guest Speaker Sir Christopher Meyer

The 2019 Annual Dinner – with our Guest Speaker Sir Christopher Meyer
We have just received confirmation that Sir Christopher Meyer has accepted our invitation to speak at our Annual Dinner. The date and the venue have yet to be fixed, but we are sure you will not want to miss this.

Christopher Meyer was 37 years in the British Diplomatic Service, with postings to Moscow (twice) and the EU before ending up as Ambassador to Germany and then to the United States. He spent almost 6 years in Washington under the George W. Bush and Bill Clinton presidencies, the longest serving Ambassador there since the Second World War. His term of office (1997-2003) included 9/11 and the preparations for the invasion of Iraq. After retiring in 2003, he was Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission for 6 years. He has run his own consultancy, published three books, and made several documentaries for television and radio, notably the 6-part Networks of Power for Sky Atlantic in 2012. He is now a member of the advisory boards of Pagefield Communications and British-American Business; a director of the Arbuthnot Banking Group; and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and of the Royal United Services Institute. He is a regular media commentator on international affairs and is writing a novel. He is married to the Baroness Meyer CBE of Nine Elms, the founder of Action Against Abduction. They have four sons between