Mark Kent
Mark Andrew Geoffrey Kent CMG (born Spilsby 14 January 1966) has been UK ambassador to Argentina[1] since 2016.
Kent was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle and Lincoln College, Oxford. He joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1987. He served in Brasilia, Brussels, Mexico City and Casteau before being appointed Ambassador to Vietnam in 2007. From 2012 to 2016 he was Ambassador to Thailand.[2]
Kent was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to British foreign policy.[3]
References[]
- ^ Gov.UK
- ^ ‘KENT, Mark Andrew Geoffrey’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, November 2016 accessed 18 January 2017
- ^ "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B4.
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- People from Spilsby
- 1966 births
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- People educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle
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- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Vietnam
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- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Argentina
- Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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