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The Places in Between The Places in Between (published 2004-2006) is a travel narrative by Scottish author Rory Stewart about his solo walk across north-central Afghanistan in 2002. Stewart started in Herat and ended in Kabul following the Hari River from west to east. Along the way he travels through some of the most rugged, isolated and poor parts of the country. Set at the same time as the American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan after the events set in motion by 9/11, Stewart made the walk in the middle of winter, adding additional hardship as he passed through the mountainous Ghor and Koh-i-Baba regions and its many snow-bound passes and villages.
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Rory Stewart Roderick James Nugent "Rory" Stewart, (born 3 January 1973) is a British diplomat, politician, and writer. A member of the Conservative Party, he is currently serving as a Minister of State at the Department for International Development and as Minister of State for Africa at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. He is a former Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. Since May 2010, he has been the Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border, in the county of Cumbria, North West England.
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Andrew Sparkes Andrew Sparkes CMG (born 4 July 1959) is a former British diplomat who was ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo and Nepal.
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Michael Shipster Michael David Shipster CMG OBE (born 17 March 1951) is a former British diplomat.
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Andy Wigmore Andrew Bruce Wigmore is a political operative, former diplomat, athlete, and businessman. Known for his representation of Belize at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and his work on the Leave.EU campaign during the UK's 2016 referendum on membership of the European Union he is a prominent associate of Arron Banks and Nigel Farage.
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John Tucknott John Anthony Tucknott MBE (born 2 January 1958) is a British diplomat.
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Paul Deighton, Baron Deighton Paul Clive Deighton, Baron Deighton, KBE (born 18 January 1956) is a British Conservative politician who served as Commercial Secretary to HM Treasury from January 2013 to May 2015. Deighton is a former investment banker who previously served as Chief Executive of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), the organisation responsible for planning the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
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Peter Unwin Peter William Unwin {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 20 May 1932) is a British writer and retired diplomat. He was Ambassador to Hungary from 1983 to 1986 and Ambassador to Denmark from 1986 to 1988. He served as Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth from 1989 to 1993. Having retired from the Diplomatic Service, he is an author and occasional contributor to "The Times".
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Rupert Read Rupert Read (born 1966) is an academic and a Green Party politician in England. He is Chair of the Green House thinktank, a former Green Party spokesperson for transport, former East of England party co-ordinator and currently a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia.
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Jeremy Hearder Jeremy V. R. Hearder (born late 1930s) is an Australian author and historian, and former diplomat and public servant.
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Ric Todd Damian Roderic Todd (born 29 August 1959) is a career British diplomat who has served as Ambassador to Slovakia, Ambassador to Poland, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands and High Commissioner to Cyprus.
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Andrew Robathan Andrew Robert George Robathan, Baron Robathan {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 17 July 1951) is a British Conservative politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Leicestershire (previously Blaby) in Leicestershire as well as a government minister.
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Karen Pierce Karen Elizabeth Pierce {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 23 September 1959) is a British diplomat. In April 2017 she was appointed Director General, Political at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Veronica Sutherland Dame Veronica Evelyn Sutherland, DBE, CMG (née Beckett; born 25 April 1939) is a former British career diplomat who served in government from 1965 until 1999, including a stint as Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland. After retiring from HM Diplomatic Service, she was appointed President of the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge from 2001 until 2008.
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Peter Tripp (diplomat) Peter John Tripp CMG (1921–2010) was a British diplomat.
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Sarah Teather Sarah Louise Teather (born 1 June 1974) is a former British Member of Parliament and Minister. As a Liberal Democrat politician, she founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay and was Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. On stepping down as an MP, she joined the Jesuit Refugee Service as an advocacy adviser and was appointed as Country Director of JRS UK in December 2015.
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Stephen O'Brien Sir Stephen Rothwell O'Brien {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1 April 1957) is a British politician and diplomat who is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. He assumed office on 29 May 2015, succeeding Valerie Amos. He was formerly a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament (MP), representing Eddisbury. He was first elected in a by-election in July 1999, after Alastair Goodlad was made British High Commissioner in Australia by Tony Blair and thus had to leave Parliament. A member of the Conservative Party, within the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition he was appointed as the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Department for International Development. In September 2013 he became the Prime Minister's Envoy to the Sahel, encompassing nine countries across North and West Africa. In order to take up the position of United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, he stood down from the UK Parliament.
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Alastair Balls Alastair Gordon Balls CB, DL (born 18 March 1944) is a former senior economic adviser to the U.K. HM Treasury and Director, Northern Region, Departments of Environment and Transport, and is Chairman of the International Centre for Life.
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Michael Alexander (diplomat) Sir Michael O'Donel Bjarne Alexander, GCMG (19 June 1936 – 1 June 2002), was a British diplomat. He was the foreign policy secretary to Margaret Thatcher and the UK ambassador to NATO.
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Ian Whitting Ian Robert Whitting {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 2 April 1953) is a British diplomat who was ambassador to Montenegro 2013–17.
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Jonathan Taylor (academic) Jonathan Francis Taylor CBE (born 12 August 1935) is the former Chair of the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), Board of Governors, Chairman of the Booker Prize Foundation, the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission and Chair of the Trustees of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
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David Reddaway Sir David Reddaway {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 26 April 1953) is a retired British diplomat who was high commissioner to Canada and ambassador to Ireland and Turkey.