John Dew (diplomat)
John Dew is a British diplomat and artist who was the British ambassador to Colombia from 2008 to 2012.Career
John Anthony Dew was educated at Hastings Grammar School, Lincoln College, Oxford and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University.
He left the Diplomatic Service in 2013 and is now a painter and printmaker, his website gives details and images of his drawings, paintings, etchings and book covers.
He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1973 and was posted to Caracas 1975–78 with the rank of Third Secretary, later Second Secretary. From 1979–83 he worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, then was posted as First Secretary to the UK delegation to the OECD in Paris 1983–87. At the FCO again he was Deputy Head of. Dew's pre-retirement posting was as HMA, Bogota, from 2008 until 2012, when he was succeeded by Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby on leaving the FCO.
