Sharon Campbell Explained

Office:British Ambassador to Haiti
Office2:British Ambassador to Costa Rica
Termstart:2015
Termend:2020
Termstart2:2011
Termend2:2015
Predecessor:Steven Fisher
Predecessor2:Thomas Kennedy
Successor:Mockbul Ali
Successor2:Ross Denny

Sharon Isabel Campbell is a British diplomat who was British Ambassador to Costa Rica from 2011 to 2015 and British Ambassador to Haiti from 2015 until 2020.

Campbell joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983 and worked in London in its Trade Relations Department, Finance Directorate, and Consular Directorate, as well as in a minister’s private offices. She was posted overseas to the British Embassies in Poland, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Venezuela, and Belgium and served as Ambassador to Costa Rica from 2011 to 2015 and to Haiti from October 2015 until August 2020.[1] [2] [3]

From 2011 to 2016, she was also non-resident ambassador to Nicaragua, where the British embassy had been closed in 2004.[4]

Campbell married Chris Campbell in 1989, and they were the first married couple ever to be ambassadors to neighbouring countries. They speak Spanish, French, Arabic, and Indonesian.[5] [6] In May 2015, they spoke about job sharing in the world of diplomacy.[7]

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  1. Web site: Sharon Campbell – GOV.UK. www.gov.uk. en. 2020-01-02.
  2. Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Dominican Republic and Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti. 2021-03-10. GOV.UK. 29 August 2019 . en.
  3. https://www.gov.uk/government/people/chris-and-sharon-campbell "Sharon Campbell"
  4. Nick Heath-Brown, ed., The Statesman's Yearbook 2016 (Springer, 7 February 2017), p. 910
  5. News: A very diplomatic marriage. Adewunmi. Bim. 2011-07-03. The Guardian. 2020-01-02. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  6. News: Appointment: Ambassador to Costa Rica and Non Resident Ambassador to Nicaragua. 2011-06-25. The Times. 2020-01-02. en. 0140-0460.
  7. https://ticotimes.net/2015/05/23/departing-british-ambassadors-reflect-on-four-year-tenure-in-costa-rica "Departing British ambassadors reflect on four-year tenure in Costa Rica"