Peter Gooderham

{{Short description|British diplomat}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Peter Gooderham

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|07|29|df=y}}

| education = Newcastle University (BA)
University of Bristol (PhD)

| nationality = British

| occupation = International Director, Ministry of Justice

}}

Peter Olaf Gooderham {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (born 29 July 1954) is a British diplomat, {{As of|2013|4|alt=currently}} serving as International Director at the Ministry of Justice.

He completed a BA in Politics and Economics at Newcastle University in 1975. After a brief period of working as a management trainee, Gooderham spent the period 1976–78 completing a PhD in Modern History at Bristol University.

From 2004 to 2007 he was the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Director of the Middle East and North Africa Directorate, based in London. In that role he provided information to the House of Commons Select Committee on International Development on the work of the Quartet on the Middle East and Hamas.[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmintdev/114/6102402.htm House of Commons Select Committee on International Development, Minutes of Evidence, 24 October 2006]

Gooderham was the United Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organisations at Geneva 2008–12. He attracted news attention for walking out, with delegates from at least 30 countries, in protest at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech during the 2009 Durban Review Conference.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8008572.stm Walkout at Iran leader's speech], BBC News, 20 April 2009