Sir Tony Brenton is a distinguished British diplomat, writer on international issues, and Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge. 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 an increasingly 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 on international affairs issues in the “Times” and other British publications.
