NASSAU, Bahamas — Her Excellency Sarah Dickson, High Commissioner Designate of the United Kingdom, paid a courtesy call on the Hon. Darren Henfield, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the Ministry on Monday, August 19, 2019.
Dickson, a Cambridge graduate who has an MBA, is a former British Ambassador to Guatemala and Honduras from June 2012 – August 2015, but most recently she was Global Affairs Director, based in London, for Scotch Whisky Association from August 2015 – June 2019.
Mrs. Dickson’s previous experiences as a British diplomat include postings at the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain, from January 2005 to August 2010 and the British Embassy in Buenos Aires from June 1997 to July 2000.
The last resident British High Commissioner to The Bahamas was Peter Young, who served from 1996 to 1999, when the high commission closed, and the British High Commission in Kingston assumed responsibility for the maintenance of diplomatic relations between the UK and The Bahamas. (BIS Photos/Raymond A. Bethel, Sr.)
