Diane Corner


Diane Corner is a former British diplomat who is deputy head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic.

Career

Diane Louise Corner was educated at Winchester County High School for Girls, Peter Symonds College and the University of Bristol. She holds degrees in both French and Politics. She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1982 and served at Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, Harare and in the Cabinet Office on secondment, as well as in the FCO. In 2000 she completed the Senior Course at the NATO Defence College in Rome. She was acting High Commmissioner to Sierra Leone 2008–09, High Commissioner to Tanzania 2009–13 and Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo 2013–14. She was appointed to her present post in July 2014 by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as his Deputy Special Representative. which she left in June 2017.