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Sir
Peter Torry
GCVO KCMG
British Ambassador to Germany
In office 2003–2007
Monarch
Elizabeth II
President
Johannes Rau Horst Köhler
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Chancellor
Gerhard Schröder Angela Merkel
Preceded by
Sir Paul Lever
Succeeded by
Sir Michael Arthur
British Ambassador to Spain
In office 1998–2003
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
David Brighty
Succeeded by
Sir Stephen Wright
Personal details
Born
(1948-08-02) 2 August 1948 (age 75)
Children
3
Education
Dover College
Alma mater
New College, Oxford
Sir Peter James TorryGCVO KCMG (born 2 August 1948) is a former British diplomat who was the UK Ambassador to Germany from 2003 until 30 September 2007.[1][2]
He is now a senior adviser to Cairn Capital and to STAR Capital Partners. He is on the Supervisory Board of Blohm and Voss AG. He is a member of the advisory board of Betfair plc and of the Kiel Global Economic Symposium[3] and a policy fellow of the Institute on the Future of Employment in Bonn. He was a member of the advisory panel of Lloyds Pharmacy until April 2010 and a senior adviser to DAM Capital until December 2009, to Centrica plc until 2012 and to Celesio AG.
He was educated at Dover College and at New College, Oxford, to which he won an Open Scholarship. At Oxford he won a blue for Rugby in 1968 and 1969, when the University beat the touring Springboks. He was subsequently selected for the President's of the Rugby Union XV against Wales [3]
He was previously Ambassador to Spain[4] from 1998 to 2003 and worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Washington DC, Bonn, Jakarta and Cuba.[citation needed]
^Peter Torry. "We need Germany, and we need Merkel". The Times. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
^"Sir Michael Arthur will be new British Ambassador to Germany". Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
^ ab"About". Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
^"Germany in a new century". Archived from the original on 11 November 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
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