Maureen Elizabeth MacGlashan, CMG was Assistant Director of the

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from 1986–1990 and is now a Fellow of the Centre. From 1963 to 1998 she was a member of the British Diplomatic Service. She served in, among other places, such hot spots as

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, Eastern Europe, and

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. Her final Diplomatic position was as British Ambassador to the

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(1995–1998), the first woman to fill that post. Since her time as Assistant Director of the Lauterpacht Centre, she has been responsible for the indexing of a number of the Centre's publications including the ILR, Iran-US Claims Tribunal Reports, ICSID Reports and the International Environmental Law Reports. She also indexes a number of non-Centre publications, and occasionally translates (e.g.

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's ''The Law of Maritime Delimitation'' for the

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). She was editor of ''The Indexer'', the international journal of indexing, from 2004 to 2018.LCIL website
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References

* * Sally Kinnes. "Rome with a view".

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. 14 May 1995. ''Spectrum'' (magazine supplement). p. 4. * "On the road to Rome: Maureen MacGlashan, who supports contraception, abortion and women priests". Scotland on Sunday. 14 May 1995. ''Spectrum'' (magazine supplement). p. 4. * "Maureen MacGlashan, Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Holy See" (1996) 190 ''Country Life'' 82 (4 July 1996) * "Goodbye and hello" in "Notebook". ''

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''. 3 January 1998. p. 13. * "Britain's woman ambassador". ''The Tablet''. 18 March 1995. p. 374. * Annabel Miller. "Women in the Vatican". ''The Tablet''. 29 March / 5 April 1997. pp. 428, 430. * "One year on" (1996) 31 ''The Venerabile'' 115 (Venerable English College)

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''Letter to Blair''

''The Left Coaster''

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