Melinda Simmons, a British diplomat with a decade of experience in international development

Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Melinda Simmons, a British diplomat with a decade of experience in international development

Melinda Simmons, a British diplomat with a decade of experience in international development, is to arrive in Kyiv this summer as Britain’s new ambassador, succeeding Judith Gough. Until 2013, Simmons served as an alternate member of the Board of the European Investment Bank, a major source of infrastructure funding for Ukraine. Noting that her mother’s grandfather worked in Kharkiv and Kyiv, she tells London’s Jewish Chronicle news site: “The idea that you would come back to a country that your family felt the need to leave, and in such a positive way… is something that is both personally meaningful to me and my wider family.”

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