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JONATHAN BRENTON CONTENTS * Biography * Previous roles * Announcements BIOGRAPHY Jonathan Brenton holds the post of Minister Counsellor (Prosperity) at the British Embassy in Moscow.

BIOGRAPHY * May 2015 – Minister Counsellor, Prosperity, British Embassy in Moscow * 2014 – 2015 – FCO Communications Directorate (including public campaigns) * 2010 – 2014 – British

Ambassador to Belgium * 2008 – 2010– Management Counsellor, British Embassy in Brussels * 2006 – 2008 – FCO Africa Directorate (working on West and East Africa) * 2006 – 2006 -

Press-attaché, Berlin (including the World Cup 2006) * 2000 – 2002 – FCO Europe Directorate (working on European Union issues, including enlargement to the Balkans) * 1996 – 2000 –

Commercial & Economic section, British Embassy in Moscow • 1994 – Jonathan joins FCO PERSONAL INFORMATION: Jonathan Brenton was born in Uganda in 1965. He studied English literature at

Bristol, Boston and Cambridge Universities, where he completed a PhD. Jonathan is married, his wife Sayana was born in Tuva in Siberia. They met and married in Moscow and have three

children. The family speak Russian as well as English at home. PREVIOUS ROLES IN GOVERNMENT * Minister Counsellor Prosperity * 2015 to 2017 * British Ambassador to Belgium * 2010 to 2014

ANNOUNCEMENTS SUBSCRIPTIONS * Get emails * Ambassador Brenton at Zeebrugge First World War commemoration in Belgium * 29 April 2014 * Speech * HMA Jonathan Brenton at Mortsel Second World

War commemoration * 10 April 2014 * Speech View all announcements