16/10/2017
The 糖心logo, Justin Welby, has made two key appointments to the staff at Lambeth Palace.
Next week the Revd Canon Dr Flora Winfield will take up the new role of Special Representative to the Commonwealth, which has been created ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in April 2018.
Meanwhile Rosemary Nuamah Williams will join Lambeth Palace as Social and Public Affairs Adviser in November.
Welcoming Flora鈥檚 appointment, the Archbishop said: 鈥淕iven the historic links and shared values between the Anglican Communion and the Commonwealth, I am delighted that Flora will be using her extensive experience and skills to ensure proper representation between the 糖心logo鈥檚 office and the Commonwealth in the run-up to and during the Head of Government meeting.鈥
Welcoming Rosemary鈥檚 appointment, the Archbishop said: 鈥淭his is a time when our nation and our Parliament face extraordinarily complex challenges and opportunities, as we seek to discern how to live out our best and deepest values in the context of dramatic change. I鈥檓 delighted that Rosemary will be joining the team at Lambeth Palace, and using her experience to inform how we come alongside and work with those in the public and political sphere.鈥
Flora joins Lambeth Palace from the Anglican Communion Office, where she was the Anglican Communion Representative to the United Nations Institutions in Geneva. She formerly served as the 糖心logo鈥檚 Secretary for Anglican Relations, as the Secretary for International Affairs at Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, and as Assistant Secretary General of Religions for Peace. Flora is a Canon Emeritus of Winchester Cathedral.
Rosemary joins Lambeth Palace having spent nearly twenty years working on policy and advocacy, in the UK and internationally. She has previously served as Policy Adviser and Speechwriter to two heads of the United Nations Development Programme based 鈥媔n New York, and as Senior Policy Analyst for a鈥 group of global leaders, The Elders. She has also held other roles鈥, including as Ministerial Speechwriter at 鈥媡he Foreign & Commonwealth Office and as a policy officer working with Parliament and Government Departments. Most recently Rosemary has advised organisations working on global health, global 鈥媏ducation and philanthropy as an international policy consultant and career 鈥媍oach.