Biography
David Hannay served as Chair of the Board of UNA-UK from January 2006 to January 2011 (he is succeeded by Sir Jeremy Greenstock).
He was born in London on 28 September 1935 and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He entered the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1959, and was initially posted to Tehran and Kabul. Starting in 1965 and continuing into the early 1970s, he was involved in the negotiations that led to the UK 's entry into the European Communities.
During the 1970s he did a four-year spell in the European Commission in Brussels; and was then, after his return to the diplomatic service, involved with energy and Middle Eastern policy. From 1979 to 1983, he was Under-Secretary (European Communities) at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was minister at the British Embassy in Washington DC in 1984-5, and was then promoted to ambassador and permanent representative to the European Communities from 1985-90. From 1990 to 1995, he was ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations.
Following his retirement from the diplomatic service, he was the British Special Representative for Cyprus between 1996 and 2003, and a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, which submitted its report in December 2004.
In 2001 he was created a life peer. He was pro-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham from 2001 to 2006. In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour.
Areas of expertise
- UN Security Council
- UN reform
- Middle East
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