Carma Elliot
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Caroline Margaret (Carma) Elliot {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CMG|OBE}} (born 24 August 1964{{cn|date=November 2023}}) is a British former diplomat who currently serves as the College President at the United World College of South East Asia.{{cite book |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-257447 |title=Elliot, Caroline Margaret, (Carma) |work=Who's Who 2018 |date=1 December 2017|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U257447 |isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}{{Cite web|title=Carma Elliot - Perspectives|url=https://perspectives.uwcsea.edu.sg/author-bios/carma-elliot|access-date=2022-02-13|website=perspectives.uwcsea.edu.sg|language=en-US}}
Career
Elliot studied Mandarin at Fudan University in Shanghai. She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1987 and served in Peking, Brussels, Bonn, Paris, Madrid and at the FCO. She was the first British Consul-General at Chongqing{{Cite web |title=New British Consulate-General in Chongqing, China |url=http://www.britishconsulate.org.hk/english/press/pr000302b.htm |publisher=British Consulate-General, Hong Kong |date=2000-03-02 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20050418145948/http://www.britishconsulate.org.hk/english/press/pr000302b.htm |archivedate=2005-04-18}} (2000–04), and later served as Consul-General at Jeddah 2004–06 and at Shanghai 2006–10. She then left the FCO and from 2011 to 2013 was executive director of China's largest international NGO, the Half the Sky Foundation (now called OneSky{{cite web |url=https://www.onesky.org/faq/ |title=FAQ |publisher=OneSky}}), which works with China's orphan children.{{cite web |url=https://halfthesky.org.au/sites/default/files/attachments/PressRelease_2011_0110.pdf |title=Press Release |publisher=Half the Sky Foundation |date=10 January 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} She joined the British Council as the regional director for China in 2013. As the British Council director she holds the post of Minister (Culture and Education) at the British Embassy in Beijing.{{cite web |url=https://www.britishcouncil.cn/en/programmes/education/generation-uk/leadinglights |title=Meet the Champion and the Leading Lights |publisher=British Council |location=China}}
She was appointed College President of UWC South East Asia in August 2019.
Elliot was appointed OBE in the 2004 New Year Honours{{London Gazette |issue=57155 |supp=y |date=31 December 2003 |page=24}} and CMG in the 2011 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=59647 |supp=y |date=31 December 2010 |page=3}}
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Category:British diplomats in China
Category:British women diplomats
Category:Fudan University alumni
Category:People of the British Council
Category:United World Colleges
Category:Officers_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire
Category:Companions_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George
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