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About Michael Shipster
- Michael David Shipster CMG OBE (born 17 March 1951) is a former British diplomat. He was educated at Ratcliffe College, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (MA 1972) and the University of East Anglia (MA, Development Studies, 1977).
- He was an Overseas Development Institute Nuffield Fellow in Botswana between 1972 and 1974, and joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1977, serving in Moscow, New Delhi, Lusaka, Johannesburg and Washington.
- He was awarded an OBE in 1990 and a CMG in 2003.
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