William Ehrman
Sir William Geoffrey Ehrman is a British civil servant and former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.Ealy life
Ehrman was born on 28 August 1950 to the historian John Patrick William Ehrman and Susan Blake. He was educated at Eton College, a boarding independent school for boys in Eton in Berkshire, followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a first class degree in Mandarin Chinese.Career
Ehrman joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Diplomatic Service in 1973, and has had postings in Beijing, New York and Hong Kong. He was the British Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1998 to 2000.
He was the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's director general for defence and intelligence between 2002 and 2004, before becoming British Ambassador to China from 2006 to 2010. Ehrman gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry in November 2009.Personal life
Ehrman is married to Penelope Ann Le Patourel, and the couple have three daughters and a son named Tom.
