Edmund Fitton-Brown is a senior fellow with New America’s Future Security program, and a former British diplomat. He graduated in History from Cambridge University and joined the Foreign Service in 1984. His career included postings in Finland, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Italy and the United Arab Emirates; and culminated as UK Ambassador for Yemen from 2015 to 2017. He speaks Arabic, Finnish and Italian; and is best known as a specialist in the Middle East and counter-terrorism.

Edmund Fitton-Brown
Fmr. U.K. Ambassador to Yemen