Victoria Jane Bowman CMG (née Robinson; born 12 June 1966) is a British former diplomat who served as UK Ambassador to Myanmar between 2002 and 2006.
[1] She has been Director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) since July 2013.
Bowman first served as a junior diplomat in what was then called Burma in 1990.
[3] On 24 August 2022, she was detained at her home in Yangon along with her second husband Htein Lin, a prominent artist and former political prisoner, and charged with immigration offences.
[4][5][6] In September 2022, she was sentenced to one year in prison for staying at an address different to the one she had registered under.