ABOUT THE SPEAKER
H.E. Jan Thompson joined the FCO in 1990 after studying French and German at Durham University, and following two years at the BBC. She has spent most of her career working in the areas of international negotiation, crisis management, and conflict, security and defense policy.
Ms Thompson is the fourth woman in a row to hold the post of Ambassador to the Czech Republic. She has brought to Prague two cats from an animal home, who have become the Embassy's new mascots.
She likes mountaineering, and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, among others. She is now intensively learning Czech.
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