Her Excellency
Dame Deborah Bronnert
DCMG
British Ambassador to Russia
In office
January 2020 – 2023
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Preceded bySir Laurie Bristow
Succeeded byNigel Casey
British Ambassador to Zimbabwe
In office
2011–2014
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byMark Canning
Succeeded byCatriona Laing
Personal details
Born
Deborah Jane Bronnert

(1967-01-31) 31 January 1967
Stockport, England
EducationFeatherstone High School
Alma materUniversity of Bristol (BSc)
University College London (MA)

Dame Deborah Jane Bronnert DCMG (born 31 January 1967) is a British diplomat, who served as British Ambassador to Russia from 2020 to 2023.

Career

Educated at Featherstone High School, Middlesex, Bronnert went up to the University of Bristol where she read Mathematics and graduated as BSc. She then pursued further studies in the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern Europe at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, receiving a MA degree.

Bronnert entered HM Civil Service in 1989, working for the Department of the Environment before being posted to the EEC UK representation in Brussels 1991–93. She then joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and was posted to Brussels again 1995–99. She served in Moscow and various other posts at the FCO,[1][2] before becoming British Ambassador to Zimbabwe 2011–14.[3] Promoted Director-General, Economic and Global Issues at the FCO in 2017,[2] she was appointed Ambassador to Russia in January 2020.[4]

Bronnert was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2012 Birthday Honours[5] and Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to British foreign policy.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bronnert, Deborah Jane. Who's Who 2018. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U247340. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4.
  2. 1 2 "Deborah Bronnert CMG". gov.uk.
  3. ↑ "New British Ambassador presents her credentials". British Embassy Harare. 8 September 2011. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Russia - January 2020".
  5. ↑ "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 3.
  6. ↑ "No. 63918". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2022. p. N3.


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