Lex Bartlem: A Diplomatic Odyssey, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Klappentext

Places of danger and world-changing events: Lex Bartlem was hands-on in the middle of many during his career as a diplomat. In 2000, amid war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, he joined an urgent charter flight to Asmara to collect stranded Australians. He was sent to Bali immediately after the bombings, in 2003 receiving an OAM for his assistance to victims and their families. That same year found Lex Bartlem in Baghdad, tasked with establishing an Australian Representative Office when Saddam Hussein was on the run. In Beirut, early in the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, he was part of a team managing the evacuation of Australian citizens. In 2010, Lex Bartlem OAM was appointed Ambassador to Lebanon, a country close to his heart, serving in that formidable role until he retired in 2014. 'The work our consular service does overseas is largely unknown to most people', Lex Bartlem writes. A Diplomatic Odyssey gives us rare insight into DFAT's important work, while telling the sometimes deeply personal story of a high achieving diplomat whose extraordinary professional journey was shaped as much by resilience and adaptability as by formal training.