Alice Louise Walpole (born 1 September 1963) is a British diplomat who is the current Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs and Electoral Assistance of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq. She has previously served as

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and to Mali.

Career

Walpole was educated at Norwich High School for Girls and New Hall, Cambridge (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 Republic of Niger. In November 2017 United Nations 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 United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). She was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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for services to British Diplomacy. Alice was appointed Director of Goodenough College in April 2021. Goodenough College is an educational charity that provides a stimulating and supportive residential community for over 700 outstanding international postgraduate scholars studying in London.

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 20 ...

and his first wife Judith (' Schofield, later Judith Chaplin), and a descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, who is generally regarded the ''de facto'' first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 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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