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Ambassador James Moran is Head of the EU Delegation in Cairo, having arrived there in
early 2012. The Delegation is one of the largest diplomatic missions in Cairo and working
closely with the 27 EU member state embassies there, he is responsible for coordination and
execution of EU foreign, security, development and trade policy. His near thirty year service
with the European Institutions has been spent entirely in external relations and includes wide
experience in the Middle East, where he was Head of the EU missions to Jordan and Yemen
in 1999-2002 and was the EU's senior coordinator in Libya during the 2011 revolution. After
heading the China division in Brussels he was the EU's Asia Director from 2006-2011, and
was the chief negotiator for a number of EU partnership agreements with China, Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Earlier experience in the 1980's
and 90's included service with the EU Delegations in Jamaica and Ethiopia and various
assignments in Brussels. Prior to joining the EU in 1983 he worked for the UK government
and private sector in London. A UK national, he attended Keele, Harvard and London
Universities and is married with four children.
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