Sharon Campbell
Campbell and her husband Chris
British Ambassador to Haiti
In office
2015–2020
Preceded bySteven Fisher
Succeeded byMockbul Ali
British Ambassador to Costa Rica
In office
2011–2015
Preceded byThomas Kennedy
Succeeded byRoss Denny

Sharon Isabel Campbell is a British diplomat who was British Ambassador to Costa Rica from 2011 to 2015 and British Ambassador to Haiti from 2015 until 2020.

Campbell joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983 and worked in London in its Trade Relations Department, Finance Directorate, and Consular Directorate, as well as in a minister’s private offices. She was posted overseas to the British Embassies in Poland, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Venezuela, and Belgium and served as Ambassador to Costa Rica from 2011 to 2015 and to Haiti from October 2015 until August 2020.[1][2][3]

From 2011 to 2016, she was also non-resident ambassador to Nicaragua, where the British embassy had been closed in 2004.[4][5]

Campbell married Chris Campbell in 1989, and they were the first married couple ever to be ambassadors to neighbouring countries. They speak Spanish, French, Arabic, and Indonesian.[6][4] In May 2015, they spoke about job sharing in the world of diplomacy.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Sharon Campbell – GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Dominican Republic and Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti". GOV.UK. 29 August 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "Sharon Campbell", gov.uk profile, accessed 23 November 2023
  4. 1 2 "Appointment: Ambassador to Costa Rica and Non Resident Ambassador to Nicaragua". The Times. 25 June 2011. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  5. ↑ Nick Heath-Brown, ed., The Statesman's Yearbook 2016 (Springer, 7 February 2017), p. 910
  6. ↑ Adewunmi, Bim (3 July 2011). "A very diplomatic marriage". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  7. ↑ "Departing British ambassadors reflect on four-year tenure in Costa Rica", Tico Times, 23 May 2015, accessed 23 November 2023


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