Tony Brenton

Sir Tony Brenton
British Ambassador to Russia
Sir Tony Brenton British Ambassador to Russia
	In office; 2004–2008
Prime Minister	Tony Blair; Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Roderic Lyne
Succeeded by	Anne Pringle
Personal details
Born	1 January 1950 (age 74)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge

Sir Anthony Russell Brenton,

KCMG

(born 1 January 1950) is a former British diplomat.

Education

Brenton was educated at Peter Symonds' School,^[1] a former direct grant grammar school for boys (which subsequently became Peter Symonds College) in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, followed by Queens' College at the University of Cambridge,^[2] where he studied Mathematics.^[1]

Life and career

Brenton entered the British

Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975, where he began his career learning Arabic and spent three years in the British Embassy in Cairo working on Middle East disputes.^[3] He later worked in London and Brussels on the development of European Community Foreign and Energy Policy and, also in Brussels, he worked on European Environment Policy for the European Commission, dealing with energy issues, the Chernobyl

crisis and the birth of European environment policy.

Brenton took a sabbatical at

British Embassy in Moscow, responsible for the British aid programme to Russia, analysis of the Russian economy and UK policy towards Russia in the major international economic fields. In 1998 he was nominated to the position of Director on Global Issues in FCO. Within the sphere of his responsibilities was the policy towards the UN, human rights, the environment and international economy and development.^{[citation needed}

]

Brenton served as

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG). From 2008 to 2017, he was a fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge

.