Anna Louise Clunes is a British diplomat, who has served as the British Ambassador to Poland since September 2020.[1]
Anna Clunes | |
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| British Ambassador to Poland | |
| Assumed office September 2020 | |
| Monarchs | Elizabeth II Charles III |
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Jonathan Knott |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Clunes was appointed a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in October 2020 for "services to British foreign policy".[2]
Education
editAnna Clunes attended the University of Cambridge from 1991 to 1994, receiving an M.A. in Mathematics.
Career
editTwo years after graduating, in 1996, and up until 2000, Clunes served as Second Secretary in the Department for International Development in Warsaw.[3] For the next three years, from 2000 to 2003, Clunes served as First Secretary of Counter-Terrorism at the UK Mission to the United Nations. Clunes continued to work almost exclusively in foreign diplomacy for the United Kingdom until 2010, when she was appointed Head of Communications and Engagement at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which she continued to work at until 2017, by which time she'd already been appointed Director of Protocol, serving from 2012 to 2015, and Director of Economic Diplomacy, serving from 2015 to 2017.
In 2017, as part of the United Kingdom's Brexit efforts, Clunes served as Director on the Department for Exiting the European Union. [3] She served in this position until 2020. During her time as Director, Clunes emphasized the importance of maintaining relations with the European Union, trade and otherwise, "from counteracting climate change to international security". [4]
References
edit- ^ "Anna Clunes CMG OBE - GOV.UK". GOV.UK. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ "Anna CLUNES | Order of Saint Michael and Saint George". London Gazette. 10 October 2020. Archived from the original on 16 July 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Poland: September 2020". GOV.UK. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
- ^ "European Union and United Kingdom: Relationship after Brexit" (PDF). European Commission Think Tank: 3.
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