Books by John Coles

Sir John Coles was, until late 1997, Head of the British Diplomatic Service and Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office. As such he was the principal adviser to three Foreign Secretaries - Malcolm Rifkind, Douglas Hurd and Robin Cook - and personally supervised the policy-making process. Prior to that, in a career spanning 37 years, he held posts in the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office, Brussels, Cairo, Dubai and Khartoum, and served as British High Commissioner in Australia, British Ambassador in Jordan and Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Now retired, he has recently been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He lives in the New Forest.