Edward Clay

Sir Edward Clay CMG ( 1994) ( born July 21, 1945) is a former British diplomat.

Life

With a scholarship he was at Magdalen College, Oxford to study. In 1968, he joined the Foreign Service. 1970 to 1972 he was employed by the British High Commissioner in Nairobi. From 1973 to 1974 he was promoted to Sofia from the Secretary to the Secretary of second class first class. From 1975 to 1979 worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. From 1979 to 1982 he was Secretary of First Class in Budapest. From 1982 to 1985, it was employed in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.

From 1993 to 1997 he was High Commissioner in Kampala. With headquarters Kampala he was accredited from 1994 to 1995 also with the Government of Rwanda and to 1996 with the Government of Burundi as an ambassador. From April 6 through mid-July 1994, the Rwandan genocide took place. From 1997 to 1999 he headed the public relations at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. From 1999 to 2001 he was High Commissioner in Nicosia. From December 2001 to 2005 he was High Commissioner in Nairobi. Clay experienced in his tenure as High Commissioner in Nairobi as Mwai Kibaki was elected with affirmations to the fight against corruption. In a speech in July 2004 before the British Business Association of Kenya, Clay described the official leadership of the Kibaki government pictorially, the high government officials would eat like gluttons and vomiting on our shoes. The Kenyan government felt addressed and declared him persona non grata. The British government saw in the utterance a destabilizing critique of the form of development cooperation.

Him an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Sunderland was awarded in 2005.

After he was forced to retire, Sir Edward was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Leonard Cheshire Disability, an organization against disability.

1969 married Edward Clay, Anne Stroud. They have three daughters.

He is a cousin of the late Edward Hartley Clay, the inventor of the continuously variable transmission.