Overview
Victoria Jane Bowman (née Robinson; born 12 June 1966) is a former British diplomat who served as UK Ambassador to Myanmar between 2002 and 2006. She has been Director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) since July 2013.
She was educated at The Dragon School, Oxford High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and the University of Chicago.
Bowman first served as a junior diplomat in what was then called Burma in 1990.
On 24 August 2022, she was reportedly detained at her home in Yangon along with her husband Htein Lin, a prominent artist and former political prisoner, and charged with immigration offences. In September 2022 she was sentenced to one year in prison for staying at an address different to the one she had registered under.
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