Adrian Fortescue

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Person.png Adrian Fortescue  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(diplomat, spook?)
BornFranklin Delano Raines
June 1941
Hong Kong
DiedAugust 2004 (Age 63)
London
Alma materLondon School of Economics
PartyDemocratic

Employment.png Director of the Office of Management and Budget Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
September 13, 1996 - May 21, 1998
Succeeded byJack Lew

Adrian Fortescue was a panelist for the discussion about ' at the 2002 Bilderberg.[1]

Background

Adrian Fortescue "spent the first few years of his life in a Japanese internment camp. Returning to England after the war, he was educated at Uppingham, an exclusive independent school in Leicestershire, before going on to earn a classics degree at Cambridge."[2] He was a son-in-law of Winston Churchill.[2]

Career

In 1964 Adrian Fortescue started his career as a UK diplomat. "But he seemed to find greater fulfilment when he transferred, via a tour of duty in the late 1980s as chef de cabinet to a British European Commissioner, Lord Cockfield, to the permanent service of the European Commission. This culminated, after he had left Lord Cockfield’s office, in four years as the Commission’s Director-General for Justice and Home Affairs."[3]

Fortescue was a Director General of Justice and Internal Affairs of the European Commission.

 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/200230 May 20022 June 2002US
Virginia
Chantilly
Westfields Marriott
The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.
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