John Mark Ambrose Herdman CBE LVO (26 April 1932 – 5 August 2015) was a British diplomat and overseas civil servant.
[1] He then enrolled at The Queen's College, Oxford, for one year, to prepare for a posting in the British Overseas Civil Service.
[2] Governor Herdman oversaw the British Virgin Islands' emergency management programs and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo.
[1] In a statement following his death in 2015, Premier Orlando Smith praised Herdman's role in the territory's recovery from Hurricane Hugo, noting that he had "helped to lay the foundation for the development of the modern Virgin Islands' disaster management systems and operations.
Herdman served as a member of the European Union's Peace Monitoring Mission during the break-up of Yugoslavia before retiring from diplomacy in 1992.