By Tom Pattinson Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles graduated from Oxford and joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1977. He had tours in Cairo, Washington, and Paris, served as head of the Foreign Office’s Hong Kong Department of the Foreign Office for three years in the run-up to the handover in 1997, and was Ambassador to Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan. He also served as Principal Private Secretary to Robin …
