PRESNTED BY:
Nicholas Armour, Director UK Trade & Investment, Canada

DATE:
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

LOCATION:
Toronto Board of Trade
1 First Canadian Place
100 King Street West
4th Floor, Dining Room
TIME: 7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

NICHOLAS ARMOUR
Nicholas Armour was born in 1951 at York. He was educated at Ampleforth and Exeter University, where he studied French and a smattering of Italian. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1974 and was sent for Arabic Language Training in Lebanon the following year. Postings abroad have included:

Beirut (1977-1980)
Athens (1984-1989)
Muscat (1991-1994)

In 1994 he was seconded to the Department of Trade and Industry, focusing first on transport infrastructure projects worldwide and then on export promotion to the wider Middle East.
In 1997 he went as Consul General to Dubai.
In 2000 he worked briefly on digital certificates for electronic signatures with the Royal Mail before becoming Head of the North America Department at the FCO in London.
In 2003 he joined the Royal College of Defence Studies as Senior Directing Staff (Civilian).

July 2005 to present he is Consul General in Toronto and Director UK Trade & Investment, Canada.