Roger Carrick

Sir Roger John Carrick KCMG LVO (born 13 October 1937) is a former British diplomat and an author and business adviser.

Sir Roger Carrick KCMG LVO
British High Commissioner to Australia
In office 1994–1997
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Tony Blair John Major
Preceded by	Brian Barder
Succeeded by	Alex Allan
British Ambassador to Indonesia
In office 1990–1994
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	William White
Succeeded by	Graham Burton
Personal details
Born	(1937-10-13) 13 October 1937 (age 87)
Nationality	British
Education	Isleworth Grammar School School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Occupation	Diplomat, author, business advisor

Career

Carrick was educated at Isleworth Grammar School (now Isleworth and Syon School). He passed the examination for Her Majesty's Foreign Service, later Diplomatic Service in 1956, but spent only 11 days there before departing for National Service in the Royal Navy 1956–58, during which he learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists. He then returned to the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO). He served in London, and was sent to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at London University in 1961 to do a degree course in Bulgarian language and literature in one year. He served at Sofia, Paris and Singapore, was a visiting fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, 1977–78, and a Political Counsellor at the Washington Embassy 1978–82. After further service at the FCO, he was made Consul-General at Chicago 1985–88, Assistant Under-Secretary (Economic) at the FCO 1988–90, Ambassador to Indonesia 1990–94 and High Commissioner to Australia 1994–97.

After a farewell tour of Australia in the High Commission's champagne oyster-coloured Rolls-Royce Silver Spur III. Carrick retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1997 at the then mandatory age of 60. He has been chairman of various companies including Strategy International and Lime Finance.^[1]

Carrick was appointed LVO in 1972^[2] and CMG in the New Year Honours of 1983,^[3] and knighted KCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1995.^[4]

Publications

• East-West technology transfer in perspective, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1978. ISBN 0877255091
• RolleroundOz: reflections on a journey around Australia, Allen & Unwin, 1998. ISBN 1864489529
• Admiral Arthur Phillip RN, founder & first governor of Australia: a British view, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 2011
• Diplomatic Anecdotage: Around the World in 40 Years, Elliott & Thompson, London, 2012. ISBN 1907642552

Various articles in learned and other journals, chapters in books, including Symphony for Australia (2007), The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave Macmillan 2017 ISBN 978-1-137-46580-1

References

1. About Us – Lime Finance
2. The London Gazette, 9 May 1972
3. Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1982
4. Supplement to the London Gazette, 17 June 1995

External links

• CARRICK, Sir Roger (John), Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
• Interview with Sir Roger Carrick, British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge, 8 January 2004

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by William White	British Ambassador to Indonesia 1990–1994	Succeeded by Graham Burton
Preceded by Sir Brian Barder	British High Commissioner to Australia 1994–1997	Succeeded by Alex Allan