Colin Budd

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Sir Colin Richard Budd, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}} (born 31 August 1945) is a British civil servant and diplomat. He served as Chef de Cabinet to the Vice President of the European Commission from 1993 to 1996; as Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet Office, Head of the Overseas and Defence Secretariat, and Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee from 1996 to 1997; and as the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2001 to 2005.{{cite web|title=Budd, Sir Colin (Richard)|website=Who's Who 2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.9324|date=1 December 2017}}{{cite web|title=Sir Colin Budd KCMG|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/colin-budd|website=GOV.UK|accessdate=21 December 2017}}{{cite book|editor=Hume, Lucy|title=People of Today 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oAM7DwAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA2012|year=2017|publisher=Debrett's|isbn=978-1-9997670-3-7|chapter=BUDD, Sir Colin Richard}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|title=British Diplomatic Oral History Programme: Recolections of Sir Colin Budd KCMG|url=https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Budd.pdf|website=Churchill Archives Centre|publisher=Churchill College, Cambridge|accessdate=21 December 2017|format=pdf|date=7 November 2016|archive-date=22 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222053052/https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Budd.pdf|url-status=dead}}