Anthony Johnson (Diplomat)

Anthony Smith Rowe Johnson ( born 1938 ) is a Jamaican economist, diplomat and politician of the Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP ). He is since 2010 Jamaican High Commissioner in the UK.

Life

Johnson visited the Peter Field Elementary School and Kingston College. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1964 and 1965, a Master's degree in International Trade and Trade Finance. He was then a journalist at the Jamaica Gleaner and then worked as a reporter for the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. From 1992 to 2008 he worked as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management Studies, University of the West Indies.

He is married and father of four children.

Policy

Johnson was Senator from 1980 to 1983 and was at that time Minister of State of Commerce and Industry Ministry. In the 1983 election boycotted by the PNP in the constituency he North East St. Catherine was elected to the House of Representatives and was Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture. With the lost of the JLP election 1989, he won his constituency a second time. He was appointed 1993-2007 for two other legislative periods senator for the opposition then, but he was from 2002, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Between 1989 and 2007 he was temporarily opposition spokesman for education, agriculture and mining, energy and technology. He was also temporarily Vice-Chairman of the JLP.

From 1991 to 1995 he was a member of the Electoral Advisory Committee.

Ambassador

From March 2008 to May 2010 was Johnson Ambassador of Jamaica to the United States and Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the Organization of American States. From May 2010 to February 2012, he was High Commissioner of Jamaica in the UK and practiced based in London also function as Jamaican Ambassador to Ireland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

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