Roy Warren Blackbeard is the current High Commissioner

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 from the Republic of Botswana to the United Kingdom

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After working for De Beers

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 and Price Waterhouse, as well as operating his own company, he became a Member of the National Assembly of Botswana

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 in 1989, representing Serowe North for the Botswana Democratic Party

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. He was appointed the Assistant Minster for Agriculture in 1992 and the Minister in 1994, which he held until 1997; in 1998, he left Parliament and was appointed the High Commissioner in London.