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 and 2009, High Commissioner to
Tanzania from 2009 to 2013 and Ambassador to the
Democratic Republic of Congo from 2013 to 2014. She was appointed by
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as his Deputy Special Representative in July 2014, before leaving the role in June 2017. Corner was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
2018 Birthday Honours list. In July 2021, Corner was appointed as the British Consul General in Jerusalem. ==References==