Kazakhstan

Paul Brummell is a UK career diplomat who joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1987. He was British Ambassador to Kazakhstan, and concurrently non-resident Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan from 2005-09. He has also served as UK Ambassador to Latvia, Romania and Turkmenistan, and as UK High Commissioner to the countries of the eastern Caribbean. In 2016, he was awarded the CMG for services to British foreign policy. He is also a travel writer who is the author of Bradt guides to Latvia, Transylvania, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, and has also written Diplomatic Gifts: a History in Fifty Presents. He was shortlisted for the 1999 Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for an article on the San Remo Song Festival. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.