Alan Goulty
British diplomat (-1947). Head of Near East and North Africa Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1987-1990, Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Egypt 1990-1995, Ambassador to Sudan 1995-1999, Director, Middle East and North Africa, Foreign
About Alan Goulty
Born 1947. Alan Goulty is a diplomat.
Alan Fletcher Goulty (born 2 July 1947) is a retired British diplomat.
Goulty graduated with a Modern History degree from Oxford in 1968 and joined the Foreign Office the same year. He attended MECAS from 1969 to 1971. After a number of posts in the Middle East and North Africa Goulty became Ambassador to Sudan (1995-1999) and later Ambassador to Tunisia (2004-2008).
Since 2013 he has been a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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British diplomat (-1947). Head of Near East and North Africa Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1987-1990, Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission, Egypt 1990-1995, Ambassador to Sudan 1995-1999, Director, Middle East and North Africa, Foreign
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