Diplomat Colin Leeman on Foreign Service, Travelling the World & Coming Out

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/colinleeman?lang=en-GB">Colin Leeman</a> is the British Consul General in Cape Town. Over the last twenty years in the British Foreign Service, he’s had postings to Iraq, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, the UAE, New Zealand — and now South Africa.</p> <p>In today’s episode we talk about:</p> <ul> <li>What a Consul General actually does/the perks of being a Foreign Diplomat</li> <li>Rescuing Emma Little-Pengelly MLA from a kidnapping</li> <li>Going from wanting to be a presbyterian minister to working for the British Government</li> <li>Coming out as gay (and what it meant to him both personally & professionally)</li> <li>His time in Iraq during the aftermath of the war</li> <li>Helping thousands of British tourists escape New Zealand during the COVID lockdowns</li> <li>Why he didn’t go to a barber for 19-years</li> <li>How he’s seen Northern Ireland change over the years</li> <li>Building community and relationships with people around the world</li> <li>And advice he’d give to an 18-year-old version of himself</li> </ul> <p>Check it out!<br /> <br /> //<br /> <br /> <a href= "https://bestofbelfast.org/stories/colin-leeman">https://bestofbelfast.org/stories/colin-leeman</a><br /> <br /> //</p>