Inaugural Nick Browne Memorial Lecture – Patient Diplomacy with Sir Geoffrey Adams

Given by Sir Geoffrey Adams

Drawing on Sir Nicholas Browne’s recently declassified internal report on British policy towards Iran in the run-up to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, as well as his own 37 years of diplomatic experience, Sir Geoffrey will argue that ‘patient diplomacy’ should be at the heart of British foreign policy.

The lecture will be followed by a reception in Parliament Hall

Sir Geoffrey Adams joined the Diplomatic Service in 1979, and has served as a British Ambassador to Iran and the Netherlands, as Consul General in Jerusalem, and as Political Director at the Foreign Office in London. He is currently attached to the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews, while preparing for a further posting in the Middle East.