Peter Gooderham

{{Short description|British diplomat}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Peter Olaf Gooderham | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CMG}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|07|29|df=y}} | alma_mater = [[Newcastle University]] (BA)<br />[[University of Bristol]] (PhD) | occupation = International Director, Ministry of Justice

| office = [[List of permanent representatives of the United Kingdom to the United Nations in Geneva|Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN in Geneva]] | monarch = [[Elizabeth II]] | prime_minister = {{ubl|[[Gordon Brown]]|[[David Cameron]]}} | predecessor = Nicholas Thorne | successor = [[Karen Pierce]] | term_start = 2008 | term_end = 2012 }} '''Peter Olaf Gooderham''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (born 29 July 1954) is a British diplomat, {{As of|2013|4|alt=currently}} serving as International Director at the [[Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Justice]].

He completed a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in Politics and Economics at [[Newcastle University]] in 1975. After a brief period of working as a management trainee, Gooderham spent the period 1976–78 completing a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in Modern History at [[Bristol University]].

From 2004 to 2007 he was the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]'s Director of the Middle East and North Africa Directorate, based in London. In that role he provided information to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] Select Committee on International Development on the work of the [[Quartet on the Middle East]] and [[Hamas]].<ref>[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmintdev/114/6102402.htm House of Commons Select Committee on International Development, Minutes of Evidence, 24 October 2006]</ref>

Gooderham was the United Kingdom's [[Permanent Representative]] to the [[United Nations Office at Geneva|United Nations]] and other international organisations at [[Geneva]] 2008–12. He attracted news attention for walking out, with delegates from at least 30 countries, in protest at [[President of Iran|Iranian President]] [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]'s speech during the 2009 [[Durban Review Conference]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8008572.stm Walkout at Iran leader's speech], BBC News, 20 April 2009</ref>

==References== *[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U44598 GOODERHAM, Peter Olaf], ''Who's Who 2013'', A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012, accessed 9 April 2013 {{Reflist}}

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