David Madden

David Madden is the Chair of the SEESOX Steering Committee and Distinguished Friend
of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. A member of the UK Diplomatic Service for 34 years, he
has extensive experience of working in and with countrie and places on the brink of break-up (former
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Yugoslavia), those seriously divided (Berlin in the 1970s, Cyprus, Bosnia & Herzegovina after the war),
and those where regional tensions run high (South-Eastern Europe generally). He was successively
British High Commissioner in Cyprus, and Ambassador in Athens before retiring in 2004. He was directly
involved in Yugoslav affairs as Deputy Head of Eastern European Department in the FCO 1984-6,
Deputy Head of Mission in Belgrade 1987-90, (briefly) member of ECMM at its inception, and Political
Adviser to EUFOR 2004-6. His most recent books include Balkan Legacies of The Great War: The Past
Is Never Dead (with Othon Anastasakis and Elizabeth Roberts, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).