CARRICK, Sir Roger John, KCMG
BDOHP Biographical Details and Interview Index Roger John CARRICK (born 13 October 1937) KCMG 1995; CMG 1983; LVO 1972. Career (with, on right, relevant pages in interview) Entry to FO, 1956 pp 2-3 Served in Royal Navy, 1956-58 p 3 School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, p 4 1961 Sofia, 1962 pp 4-9 FO desk officer, Jordan; then Treasury Centre for Administrative pp 9-10 Studies, 1965 Paris, 1967 pp 10-14 Singapore, 1971 pp 14-19 FCO, Personnel Operations Department 1973 (deputy head, 1976) pp 12-25 Visiting Fellow, Institute of International Studies, University of p 25 California, Berkeley, 1977 Counsellor, Washington, 1978 pp 25-32 Head, Overseas Estate Department, FCO, 1982 pp 46-50 Consul-General, Chicago, 1985 pp 33-38 Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Economic), FCO, 1988 - Ambassador to Jakarta, Indonesia, 1990 pp 38-42 High Commissioner to Australia, 1994 pp 42-46 Retired, 1997 pp 50-51 1 Interview with Sir Roger Carrick on 8 January 2004 by Virginia Crowe. Copyright: Sir Roger Carrick VC You were recruited in 1956. What made you join the Foreign Service? RC I rather wanted to escape suburban London where I was brought up in what was once a village, and to see something of the world. I had found all that rather constraining. I recall a boring exercise of ploughing through career advice, bits of paper here and there, but also the challenge of getting into the Foreign Office, which some of my friends said I would never do. VC And what did you do? Take exams or was it interviews? RC Exams first; a fairly serious exam held in a great hall in London.
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