Ian Warren Mackley CMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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 CVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 (born 31 March 1942) is a former British diplomat.

Mackley was educated at Ardingly College

Ardingly College

Ardingly College is a selective independent co-educational boarding and day school, founded in 1858 by Canon Nathaniel Woodard, included in the Tatler list of top public schools. The college is located in the village of Ardingly near Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England, having moved to its present...

. He was British Chargé d'Affaires to Afghanistan between (1987-1989), and went on to serve as British High Commissioner to Ghana between 1996-2000 where he concurrently served as non-resident ambassadors to Togo

Togo

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. He featured in a satirical cartoon strip by Steve Bell

Steve Bell (cartoonist)

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 in The Guardian

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 when the British mission withdrew from Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 at the time of the Taliban takeover. After retiring from the FCO in 2001 he served as a clerk in the House of Lords

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