Despite his “nomadic” career, John and Karen have managed to raise their children, Danielle, Nathaniel and Isabelle, remarkably well. MOHD SAHAR MISNI/The Star
“Was it my dream to join the Foreign Service?” John K. Samuel, the former Undersecretary of the Human Rights and Humanities Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Malaysia, asks and answers: “Yes, it was right up there along with being an artist and a pilot!”
John has a distinctive wit about him and jokes about how he has gone from growing up in the birthplace of “Kluang Man” all the way to now being the Ambassador to Finland (Latvia and Estonia, too!).
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