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Corner attended Winchester County High School for Girls, before continuing her education at Peter Symonds College in Winchester. She went on to study BA French and Politics at the University of Bristol, and later achieved a MA in War Studies from King's College London.
Upon joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1982, Corner served at Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, Harare and in the Cabinet Office on secondment, as well as in the FCO. In 2000, she completed the Senior Course at the NATO Defence College in Rome.
Corner was acting High Commissioner to Sierra Leone between 2008–09, High Commissioner to Tanzania from 2009–13 and Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2013–14. [3] She was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as his Deputy Special Representative in July 2014, [4] before leaving the role in June 2017. [5]
Corner was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours list. [6]
In July 2021, Corner was appointed to her present post as the British Consul General in Jerusalem. [1]
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