Christopher Meyer
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Sir Christopher Meyer, KCMG (born 22 February 1944) is a former British Ambassador to the United States (1997-2003), and the current chair of the Press Complaints Commission (since 2002).
Meyer was born in 1944 to Reggie Meyer and his wife Eve. Reggie was a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF who was killed in action four days before his son was born. Meyer was educated at Lancing College and Peterhouse, Cambridge. On the advice of his director of studies, historian Maurice Cowling, he applied to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where he was employed from 1966.
His first posting, at the age of 24, was as third secretary to the British embassy in Moscow in 1968. Other service included a posting to Spain (1970–1973), heading the political section of the embassy to the Soviet Union (1982–1984), he was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Centre for International Affairs (1988-1989), press secretary to Foreign Minister Geoffrey Howe and Prime Minister John Major (1993–1995), a short stint as ambassador to Germany (1997), and finally British Ambassador to the United States from 1997 until his retirement in 2003.
In 1988, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG).
He published his memoirs in November 2005, with extracts serialised in The Guardian and the Daily Mail. He is married to Catherine Laylle.
Meyer is an Independent Director of GlobeTel Communications Corp.(AMEX:GTE). He was Chairman of the Board between Sep 16, 2005 and February 19, 2006.
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Books
- Christopher Meyer (2005), DC Confidential, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. (ISBN 0297851144)
External links
- The Guardian, [Sir Christopher Meyer's memoirs]
- Denis MacShane, [hostile critique] of Sir Christopher and his book from a recent UK Foreign Office minister.
- GlobeTel Communications Corp., [Web page]
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