Adam Wood

Adam Kenneth Compton Wood ( born March 13, 1955) is a former British diplomat and the current Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man.

He attended the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe and studied at Oriel College, Oxford.

From 1983 to 1986 Woods was assistant to the British Exekutivdirekors at the World Bank in Washington. In 1986 he became Head of Department in the Overseas Development Administration with responsibility for the European Development Fund. In 1988 he was the British development program in Kenya from 1993 to 1996, Woods Advisor to the Director General for External Relations at the EU in Brussels. The next four years he represented the British Ministry of Development in Bangkok with responsibility for Southeast Asia. In 2000, he returned to Brussels, where he remained as a consultant for development policy of the UK permanent representation. Woods later career consisted of diplomatic tasks in Africa, such as. Prior to his retirement from the diplomatic service in 2010, he was Director of the Africa - Foreign and Commonwealth Office responsible for the embassies in Africa as British High Commissioner in Uganda from 2002 to 2005, and High Commissioner to Kenya from 2005 to 2008.

Wood Man was announced as vice- governor of the Isle of in November 2010 and sworn in on 7 April 2011.