Julian Bullard

Sir Julian Leonard Bullard GCMG (8 March 1928 – 25 May 2006) was a British diplomat and Pro-Chancellor of Birmingham University.

[1][2] He was employed at Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service from 1953 until 1988, the ambassador to Bonn in the mid-1980s as well as heading Britain's relations with Soviet Russia during the early 1970s under the government of Ted Heath.

[3] His father, Sir Reader Bullard, formerly Ambassador in Iran, encouraged him to enter the Foreign Service, and he came first in the competitive examination.

While at the Rifle Brigade barracks in Winchester he was awarded a fellowship at All Souls College at Oxford.

[2] In the post-Six-Day War climate, he was made head of the East European and Soviet department of the Foreign Office.