Christopher Geidt
Sir Christopher Edward Wollaston MacKenzie Geidt KCB, KCVO, OBE, PC ( born August 17, 1961) is the reigning since 2007, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
Training
His school days spent Geidt in the prestigious schools Dragon School in Oxford and Trinity College, Glenalmond. He studied military science at King's College London and International Relations at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Some guest semester he graduated at the Universities of Bristol and Harvard and at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Career
He joined the Scots Guards and attended until 1983 the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. anaschließend he became an officer in the Intelligence Corps of the British armed forces. 1987 Geidt deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies. From 1994 he worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Ministry in the diplomatic service in Sarajevo, Geneva and Brussels.
Geidt moved in 2002 into the Privatsekretäriat of Queen Elizabeth II, who in 2005 was deputy private secretary and in 2007 private secretary. He is also head of the Royal private archive and a trustee of the Royal Collection, the Silver Jubilee Trust and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust.
As private secretary to the Queen, he is a member of the Golden Triangle, a connecting rod by high-ranking British officials. The other two are the Cabinet Secretary and the Chief of Cabinet of the Prime Minister. You have an important task in the event of a hung parliament in the UK, an election without a clear majority, as recently occurred in 2010.
Other References
1991 sued Geidt along with Anthony de Normann journalist John Pilger and Central Television for the documentation Cambodia: The Betrayal which they were named as members of the Special Air Service and as coach of the Khmer Rouge in dealing with landmines and other explosive devices. Geidt and de Normann won the process. A similar libel suit was Ann Clwyd, Minister for Overseas Development ( Minister for Overseas Development ) in the Ministry of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of Nations (Foreign and Commonwealth Office ), aimed at what had to apologize publicly and bore all the costs of the process. During and after the Bosnian War, there were connections between Geidt and Serbian leaders, including Radovan Karadžić, Momcilo Krajišnik and General Ratko Mladić, all Indicted for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. He assisted in 1996 the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Carl Bildt in the negotiations with Serbian President Slobodan Milošević for the removal of Karadžić from the president of the Republika Srpska.
Family
In 1996 he married Emma Charlotte Angela Neil, the youngest daughter of Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen.
Orders and Awards
Geidt is also a member of the King's College London.