Tony Brenton

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Anthony Brenton (2007)

Sir Anthony "Tony" Russell Brenton KCMG (born January 1, 1950 ) is a former British diplomat who was ambassador to Russia between 2004 and 2008, among other things .

Life

Studies and beginning of the diplomatic career

Brenton, son of an officer of the Royal Navy and one from New Zealand coming mother began after the visit of Peter Symonds School in Winchester a degree in mathematics at the University of Cambridge . After graduating he joined in 1975 in the Civil Service (Her Majesty's Civil Service) Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign and Commonwealth Office ) , initially was auxiliary secretary for Japan in the Far East -Referat. He then attended an Arabic language course at the Army Education Center in Beaconsfield , which he continued in Beirut after the Middle East Center for Arab Studies (MECAS), which was temporarily closed due to the Lebanese civil war, was reopened .

In 1978 he took over his first assignment at a diplomatic mission abroad, namely as second secretary and political advisor at the embassy in Egypt , where he worked until 1981. During this time, on September 17, 1978, the Camp David Agreement between Egypt and Israel and the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty were signed on March 26, 1979. On January 24, 1979, he was appointed to the diplomatic service (Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service ) adopted. At the end of his activities there, the President of Egypt Anwar al-Sadat was assassinated on October 6, 1981 .

Europe specialist and delegation to the EC Commission

After his return to Great Britain, Brenton was employed in the Department for the European Communities of the Foreign Ministry in 1981 and initially belonged to the working group for the British EU Council Presidency in the second half of 1981. During this time he worked closely with Robert Cooper , the so-called European Correspondent at Foreign Ministry was. He was then temporarily seconded to the Belgian Foreign Ministry in 1982 , after Belgium had taken over the EU Council Presidency from Great Britain in the first half of the year. He then worked from 1982 to 1985 as a European representative in the working group for foreign policy of the European Communities at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In September 1985 he moved to the permanent representation of the European Communities in Brussels as an energy consultant .

Almost a year later Brenton was 1986 EC Commission seconded and was, until 1989 Deputy Head of Cabinet of Stanley Clinton Davis , who between 1985 and 1989 Commissioner for the Environment , Consumer Protection and traffic in the first European Commission of Jacques Delors was. After Clinton Davis was not re-elected EC Commissioner, Brenton returned to Great Britain and between 1989 and 1990 was Head of Unit for the United Nations with the rank of Counselor of the Embassy . During this time, Namibia gained independence on March 21, 1990 . After only one year, he became head of the Department for Environment, Science and Energy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990 and held this position until September 1992. As such, he dealt with the preparation of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro .

Envoy to Russia and the USA and Ambassador to Russia

After Brenton was a Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University between 1992 and 1993 , he wrote the book The greening of Machiavelli in 1994 . The evolution of international environmental politics , in which he dealt with international environmental politics . After a year-long Russian language course, he became envoy and head of the department for economics, aid programs and sciences at the embassy in Russia in September 1994 , making him one of the closest associates of the then ambassador Brian Fall until 1998 and his successor Andrew Wood from 1995 .

After returning to Great Britain in 1998, Brenton took over the position of Director for Global Issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held this position until 2001. As such, he dealt with the preparation and follow-up of the G8 summit in Birmingham 1998 . On January 1, 2001, he became Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG). He then acted as envoy and permanent representative of the ambassador to the USA between January 2001 and 2004 and was thus deputy of the then ambassador Christopher Meyer and, since 2003, of his successor David Manning . At the same time he was responsible for the consulates and consulates general in the USA.

Most recently, in September 2004, Brenton succeeded Roderic Lyne as ambassador to Russia. While he was there, the G8 summit took place in Saint Petersburg in 2006 . On June 16, 2007 he was beaten to Knight Commander des, so that he has since had the addition of "Sir". In 2008 he retired and was replaced as Ambassador to Russia by Anne Fyfe Pringle .

Brenton then became a Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge in 2009 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47811, HMSO, London, April 5, 1979, p. 4500 ( PDF , accessed June 16, 2016, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 56070, HMSO, London, December 30, 2000, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed June 16, 2016, English).
  3. ↑ Brenton acted following the dismissal Meyers in early 2003 to hold office until Mannings in September 2003 as chargé d'affaires of the Embassy in the USA.
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 58358, HMSO, London, June 16, 2007, p. 3 ( PDF , accessed June 16, 2016, English).
personal data
SURNAME Brenton, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brenton, Anthony Russell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1950