Edmund Walter Fitton-Brown (born 5 October 1962) is a British diplomat who is currently a Monitoring Team Coordinator with the

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. From February 2015 to February 2017, he served as Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Yemen. Fitton-Brown read history at

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; after graduating, he joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1984. Between 1991 and 2003, he served as

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before becoming

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and others. Since 2018, he has acted as an expert supporting

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Committees responsible for sanctions against Al Qaeda, ISIL/Daesh and the Taliban.

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1962 births Living people Members of HM Diplomatic Service Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Yemen Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 20th-century British diplomats {{UK-diplomat-stub