Deborah Bronnert
Deborah Bronnert CMG | |
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British Ambassador to Russia | |
Assumed office January 2020 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Sir Laurie Bristow |
British Ambassador to Zimbabwe | |
In office 2011–2014 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Mark Canning |
Succeeded by | Catriona Laing |
Personal details | |
Born | Deborah Jane Bronnert 31 January 1967 Stockport, England |
Education | Featherstone High School |
Alma mater | University of Bristol (BSc) University College London (MA) |
Deborah Jane Bronnert CMG (born 31 January 1967) is a British diplomat who is currently British Ambassador to Russia at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Career[]
Bronnert was educated at Featherstone High School, the University of Bristol where she gained a BSc degree in mathematics, and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London for a MA in the political economy of Russia and Eastern Europe. She worked for the Department of the Environment from 1989 including a posting to the UK representation to the EEC in Brussels 1991–93. She then joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and was posted to Brussels again 1995–99. She has also served in Moscow and in various posts at the FCO.[1][2] She was British Ambassador to Zimbabwe 2011–14.[3] She became Director General, Economic and Global Issues, at the FCO in 2017.[2] She took up post as Ambassador to Russia in January 2020.[4]
Bronnert was appointed CMG in the 2012 Birthday Honours.[5]
References[]
- ^ Bronnert, Deborah Jane. Who's Who 2018. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U247340. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Deborah Bronnert CMG". gov.uk.
- ^ "New British Ambassador presents her credentials". British Embassy Harare. 8 September 2011. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011.
- ^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Russia - January 2020".
- ^ "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 3.
- 1967 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of Bristol
- Alumni of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Zimbabwe
- British women ambassadors