Gozney became Head of Chancery and Political Section in
Madrid in 1984,
Private Secretary to the
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in 1989 and British
High Commissioner to
Swaziland in 1993. In 1996, he became Head of the Security Policy Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1996, Chief of the Assessments Staff at the
Cabinet Office in 1998, and British
ambassador to
Indonesia in 2000. He was British
High Commissioner to
Nigeria. The
Order of St Michael and St George was awarded to him in 2006. Gozney succeeded
John Vereker as
Governor of Bermuda on 12 December 2007, and served until 2012. On 27 May 2016, Gozney was sworn in as the 30th
Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, succeeding
Adam Wood. He served until
John Lorimer replaced him on 29 September 2021. Jeremy Storey was appointed as the island's first full-time
Judge of Appeal in 2017. On 16 March 2020, Gozney declared the first
state of emergency in the Isle of Man since
World War II in response to the
COVID-19 pandemic. The state of emergency was lifted on 26 June. His term was scheduled to end in April 2021, but the pandemic resulted in it being extended by six months. In 2022, he was selected to be a member of a £500,000 inquiry into
Jersey's management of the pandemic. ==Publication==