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Sally axworthy stirring the waters making the impossible possible
Sally Jane Axworthy, MBE (1 September 1964) is the current British ambassador to the Holy See since she presented her Letters of Credence to Pope Francis in September 2016. She is married to Michael Axworthy and has four children.
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She graduated in with a degree in modern history from Oxford University, specialisation in economics and law.
She joined the Foreign Office in 1986. In 1987 she was a Desk Officer covering Hungary and what was then Czechoslovakia. From 1988 until 1989 she spent a year learning Russian in preparation for her posting to Moscow in 1989 as a Third Secretary, Commercial. She remained in Moscow until 1991 when she was transferred to Kiev as a Second Secretary, Economic.
From 1993-1994 she returned to London as Head of the Political Section and the UN Directorate. After this, until 1996 she was seconded to the German Foreign Ministry returning to the FCO but remaining in Germany in Bonn as First Secretary. For two year from 1998 she was head of the Turkey, Cyprus & Malta Section before being posted to Government Office South West as Assistant Director.
From 2011 to 2015 she returned to London where she worked in the FCO on African affairs.
On 19 September 2016 she presented her Letters of Credence to Pope Francis, beginning her mission to the Holy See.