Adrian Thorpe (diplomat)

Adrian Charles Thorpe CMG FRSA (born (1942-07-29)29 July 1942 in Cambridge) is a British retired ambassador.

He entered the diplomatic service in 1965 and was posted to Tokyo where he served for a total of 14 years between postings at Beirut, Bonn and the FCO in London.

He was deputy High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur 1989–1995, British Ambassador to the Philippines 1995–1998, and Ambassador to Mexico 1999–2002.

[2] Thorpe speaks Japanese, German, French and Spanish, and married Miyoko Kosugi in 1968.

This British diplomat-related article is a stub.