Denis Keefe
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| Education | The Campion School |
| Alma mater | Churchill College, Cambridge Hertford College, Oxford |
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Denis Edward Peter Paul Keefe CMG (born 29 June 1958) is a British diplomat and former Ambassador to Serbia and to Georgia.
Biography
Keefe was educated at The Campion School and studied Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge and Hellenistic Greek poetry at Hertford College, Oxford.[citation needed] He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1982 and served at Nairobi and twice at Prague as well as at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London. In 2007, he studied Georgian and Russian at Malmö University in preparation for his appointment as ambassador.[citation needed]
Keefe was Ambassador to Georgia 2007–10 including the Russo-Georgian war in 2008. He was one of the victims of the 2010 Georgian news report hoax.[1]
Keefe was Minister and Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow 2010–14. During this time, Russian media harassed him and accused him of being a MI6 officer, possibly because of his supposed actions in Georgia.[2]
Keefe was appointed Ambassador to Serbia from June 2014.[3] In 2019, he was succeeded in the role by Sian MacLeod. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2016 New Year Honours.[4]
References
- KEEFE, Denis Edward Peter Paul, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013
- Mr Denis Keefe Authorised Biography, Debrett's People of Today
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."UK ambassador protests at TV hoax". BBC. 16 March 2010. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- ^ Spying claims against top British diplomat threaten Anglo-Russian détente, The Daily Telegraph, London, 9 March 2013
- ^ Denis Keefe, Ambassador to Serbia, gov.uk
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