Tony Brenton is a distinguished British diplomat, writer on international issues, and Fellow of Cambridge University. He joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1975 and, in the course of a 33 year career, served in the Arab world, the European Union, Russia and the USA. He has dealt with such issues as the Arab/Israel dispute, global climate change, international energy policy, and the Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq wars. He was a senior official at the British Embassy in Washington DC following 9/11 and at the time of the Iraq war. He served as British Ambassador in Moscow 2004-2008 during the most difficult period in modern British/Russian relations. He has written a well received book on international environmental diplomacy “The Greening of Machiavelli” and edited a book ("Historically Inevitable") on the Russian Revolution. He is a regular commentator in the “Times” and other British publications, Director of the Russia British Chamber of Commerce and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge where he is writing a book on Russia at the time of Peter the Great.
