Dianna Melrose

Diana Melrose (* 1952 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) is a British diplomat and since 2008 her country's ambassador in Cuba.

Life

The parents of Diana Melrose are Audrey Sybil MacQueen and James Frederick Charles Melrose. Melrose studied Latin American Studies at the University of London and Spanish and French at King's College London. She worked as a translator. Her first job was interpreting at British- Cuban economic negotiations. In the British Council, she organized trips of professionals to Latin America. From 1980 she became involved with Oxfam UK Ireland where she was Program Officer.

In 1982 she published her study to misuse of medicine in underdeveloped countries. In 1997 she was adviser to the British foreign minister in the New Labour Government. Melrose joined the Foreign Service in 1999. Since 2008, she is an ambassador of the United Kingdom in Cuba. She is the first woman who dressed this post.

Writings (selection )

• Bitter Pills. Medicines and the Third World Poor. Oxfam, Oxford, 1987, ISBN 0-85598-065-6 (EA Oxford 1982).
• The Great Health Robbery. Baby Milk and Medicine in Yemen. Oxfam, Oxford 1984, ISBN 0-85598-054-0.
• Nicaragua. The Threat of a Good Example? Oxfam. Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-85598-070-2.
• An interpretation of the works of Alfredo Bryce Echenique. Dissertation, University of London in 1974.