Stephen John Wordsworth LVO CMG (born 1955) is a former British diplomat, now executive director of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics Wordsworth was born in Port Talbot, South Wales, and educated at St John's School Porthcawl, Epsom College and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied German and Russian (MA).
He served abroad in Moscow in Leonid Brezhnev’s last years, in Lagos through two military coups, in Bonn during the process of German reunification and at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe as a Political Adviser to SACEURs George Joulwan and Wesley Clark for three years during NATO's IFOR and SFOR operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[2] In 1992 he was honoured by the Queen, being appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) for his part in the organisation of her State Visit that year to Germany.
[3] After leaving the FCO, Wordsworth joined the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) as executive director in 2012.
2012 – date: Executive Director, CARA (Council for Assisting Refugee Academics) 2006 – 2010: British Ambassador, Belgrade, Serbia 2003 – 2005: Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy, Moscow, Russia 1999 – 2002: Head, Western Balkans Department, FCO 1994 – 1998: Political Adviser to the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Mons, Belgium 1990 – 1994: British Embassy, Bonn, Germany 1988 – 1990: Section Head, FCO, for relations with the GDR and for Allied responsibilities in Berlin under Quadripartite status, later for German Unification 1986 – 1988: Cabinet Office, London 1983 – 1986: British High Commission, Lagos, Nigeria 1982 – 1983: Eastern European and Soviet Department, FCO 1981: Presidency Secretariat, UK Presidency of the European Community 1979 – 1981: British Embassy, Moscow, USSR 1977 – 1979: Eastern European and Soviet Department, FCO