The Honourable Alice Louise Walpole, (born 1 September 1963), is the Director of

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. As a former British diplomat and United Nations official, she served from 2017 to 2021, as an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs and Electoral Assistance in the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). Prior to her UN role, she spent over 30 years in the British Diplomatic Service, including appointments as

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, Mali and (non-resident) Niger.

Career

Walpole was educated at

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and

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(now Murray Edwards College). She joined the

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(FCO) in 1985. Following a posting as HM Consul-General in Basra, Iraq (2009–11), she became British Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in July 2011. In 2016 she became Ambassador to the Republic of Mali and non-resident Ambassador to the

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. In November 2017

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Secretary-General

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announced the appointment of Alice Walpole as the new Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs and Electoral Assistance of the

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(UNAMI). She held this post until March 2021. She was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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for services to British Diplomacy. Walpole was appointed Director of

in April 2021. She was awarded the

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in 2024. Walpole is a Member of the Council of Arts and Sciences, the board of the

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Personal life

Walpole is a daughter of

Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole Robert Horatio Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole of Walpole, 8th Baron Walpole of Wolterton (8 December 1938 – 8 May 2021), was a British politician who, as an excepted hereditary peer, was a member of the House of Lords until his retirement in 201 ...

, and his first wife, Judith Chaplin (' Schofield, later

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), and a descendant of

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, (8 December 16785 February 1757) was an English diplomat, politician and peer who served as the British ambassador to France from 1724 to 1730. He was the son of Robert Walpole and the younger brother of ...

(of Wolterton), a younger brother of Sir

Robert Walpole Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (; 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whigs (British political party), Whig statesman who is generally regarded as the ''de facto'' first Prim ...

, the first

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. Her ancestors include Sir Robert Walpole's father Colonel

(1650–1700). The brother, Thomas, of her great-grandfather Horatio (1881-1918)''Cycling'' Saturday 18 April 1903, page 49 was the cycling partner of

Lionel Martin Lionel Walker Birch Martin (15 March 1878 – 21 October 1945) was an English businessman who co-founded the company that became Aston Martin. Early life He was born at Nansladron at Pentewan near St Austell in Cornwall, and was an only chil ...

, of

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. In 1990, she married Dr Angel Carro Castrillo (of Switzerland), with whom she has six children. They divorced in 2010, having separated in 2002.

References

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