British Council Country Director Scotland. Previously worked in Western Balkans, Africa and LatAm. RTs not endorsements. Views my own.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined June 2013
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It was an absolute pleasure to welcome Spanish colleagues and partners to #Scotland to explore further collaboration with #UK #HigherEducation institutions
Great to welcome 26 Spanish Unis to #Scotland and have UK institutions join us at Fostering Collaborations today @EdinburghUni hosted by @esBritish Insightful discussions about internationalisation, mobility & fostering more #HigherEducation collaborations between Spain & UK
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Pleasure to give a talk at Belgrade’s University of the Arts for cultural policy and management Masters students. We talked about notions of cultural relations, the British Council’s vision and purpose and how we translate that into action @BritishCouncil @ukinserbia @rsBritish
Accepting a prize on behalf of @rsBritish from Novi Sad’s wonderful Matica Srpska gallery on the occasion of its 175th anniversary. The prize was for long-standing friendship and collaboration. That’s what we do. @ukinserbia @BritishCouncil @TPalkovljevic @galmaticesrpske
Super performance of @ZeldinAlexander ‘s Love at @Biteffestival last night. Great writing, great acting, very moving. And a privilege to meet him along with BITEF Artistic Director Ivan Medenica and @SianCMacLeod @rsBritish #CreativeProducersWB
Sinoć se #Beograd sa premijernim izvođenjem predstave LJUBAV @Biteffestival pridružio svetskim pozorišnim centrima.
Ambasadorka 🇬🇧@SianCMacLeod sa autorom @ZeldinAlexander umetničkim direktorom BITEF Ivanom Medenicom i direktorom @rsBritish Piterom Braunom.
#CreativeProducersWB
And I should have said we met Mrđan at the super @msub_mocab along with the Museum of Contemporary Arts Director Maja Kolarić
Pleasure to welcome @BritishCouncil Deputy CEO Kate @EwartBiggs to Serbia and Montenegro. We talked about cooperation in education, English, arts and culture including with wonderful Serbian sculptor Mrđan Bajic. @ProsvjetaCG @rsBritish @ukinserbia @UKinMontenegro @lucicmilan
Pleasure to welcome @BritishCouncil Deputy CEO Kate @EwartBiggs to Serbia and Montenegro. We talked about cooperation in education, English, arts and culture including with wonderful Serbian sculptor Mrđan Bajic. @ProsvjetaCG @rsBritish @ukinserbia @UKinMontenegro @lucicmilan
Hard to disagree 😊
My adopted hometown as best city in the world? I’ll take that. #edinburgh timeout.com/things-to-do/bes…
It was an absolute pleasure to meet again Montenegro’s Minister of Education, Miomir Vojinović, this time in his office. Together with @VanjaMadzgalj, we discussed current and future cooperation in education @ProsvjetaCG @UKinMontenegro
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Shout out to the University of Arts in Belgrade and the Novi Sad Wind Quintet. It was lovely to join the University’s end of year celebration. arts.bg.ac.rs & nswindquintet.com @rsBritish – at Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
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It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This is how we marked it in Belgrade @ukinserbia @rsBritish #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #breastcancernow – at Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
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Almost three hours and I didn’t check my phone once. And my first time in a cinema for over three years. Great night at the partner screening of the new #JamesBond movie #NoTimeToDie @SianCMacLeod @lucicmilan – at Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
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And what a spectacular performance it was from @AkramKhanLive. With much gratitude and respect to @AjaJung1 for organising such a brilliant Belgrade Dance Festival #enjoydance – at Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Lovely to visit #NoviSad with British Council colleagues to see the amazing @AkramKhanLive with @AjaJung1, visit the Beljanski Gallery & catch up on plans for @novisad2022
A welcome change of scenery & pace to end a busy week
#BelgradeDanceFestival #SpomenZbirkaPavlaBeljanskog
Well said Peter! So looking forward to this, with everything crossed… – at Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
The whole country is eagerly hoping @EmmaRaducanu has a great game ahead and is willing her to win. Can’t remember the country feeling this united since @GarethSouthgate healed the nation. Sport is great isn’t it? Proud of the diversity and values in so many sporting heroes.
Join the global conversation on Thursday. Details below. #TheClimateConnection @ukinserbia – at Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
On 9 September, we will host the launch of #theClimateConnection Global Youth Letter, a place for the global young people to make their voice heard: an urgent call to action for society’s leaders to unite to tackle the climate emergency. Register now: britishcouncil.org/climate-c…
This is cultural relations. Talking about punk music, climate change and much more at brilliant #PopUpEmbassy #NoviSad @rsBritish @ukinserbia @SianCMacLeod @sshllng
What a pleasure to be with the @ukinserbia #PopUpEmbassy in #novisad. Here I am talking about British punk/new wave music…. @rsBritish
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This school is one of 4000 in W.Balkans in UK funded #21stCenturySchools programme. Serbia PM once said “teaching children how to think, not what to.” The older girls want to work in IT supporting Serbia’s digital transformation. Brilliant. @rsBritish @ukinserbia @sshllng – at Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Still time to register! 10am CET #TheClimateConnection @rsBritish @ukinserbia – at Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
#TheClimateConnection global panel is all set for tomorrow, 9.00 BST. Get to hear our esteemed panellists discuss the role of arts and culture, education, science, and English in finding #climatechange solutions. Register: bit.ly/3ysxHQa #TogetherForOurPlanet #COP26
It was great to take part in today’s Coding Challenge in Serbia, part of the wonderful UK government funded 21st Century Schools programme #ŠkoleZa21vek Congratulations to all! Brilliant to see such creativity and innovation @rsBritish @ukinserbia – at Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Na 3⃣. takmičenju u programiranju na #microbit uređajima pobedio je tim OŠ "Emilija Ostojić" iz Požege 🥇👏🏻
Takmičenje je organizovano u okviru programa #ŠkoleZa21Vek koji u Srbiji sprovodi Britanski savet 🇬🇧 u saradnji sa Ministarstvom nauke, prosvete i tehnološkog razvoja 🇷🇸
