Judith Slater
HMTC, Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Judith Slater is Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Eastern Europe and Central Asia andHer Majesty’s Consul General in Istanbul. She has been in post since 2016.
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Prior to this, she was Deputy High Commissioner and South East Asia Regional Director of Trade and Investment in Singapore until September 2015.
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Her previous posts include Deputy High Commissioner in Pretoria, South Africa from 2007-2011 and British Consul-General in Houston, Texas from 2004-2007. In the FCO in London, Judith’s posts have included Private Secretary to the Minister of State responsible for relations with Asia and Head of Nuclear Policy Section in
Non-Proliferation Department. She has also had overseas postings in New Delhi and Canberra.
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Judith has a law degree from St John’s College, Cambridge. She attended Howell’s School, Denbigh. She is married to Philip, a Recruitment Consultant and has two teenage children. In her spare time she enjoys golf, tennis, jogging, cinema and supporting Stoke City FC.