Jon Benjamin (diplomat)
Jon Benjamin is Director of the Diplomatic Academy at the British Foreign OfficeBackground and education
Jon Benjamin was brought up in Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, attending Slough Grammar School. He read German and Swedish at the University of Surrey.Diplomatic career
- 1986: Desk Officer for Pakistan
- 1986–1987: Desk Officer for Burma and Laos, South East Asian Department
- 1988–1991: Jakarta, Third, later Second Secretary
- 1992–1993: Head of Section for Central Asia and the Caucasus, Eastern Department
- 1993–1995: Chief-of-staff to Minister of State responsible for EU/Europe and Latin America
- 1996–1999: Ankara, First Secretary, Head of Political and Public Affairs Section
- 2000: Head of Zimbabwe Emergency Unit
- 2000–2002: Deputy Head, Drugs and International Crime Department
- 2002–2005: Head of Human Rights Policy Department
- 2005: Washington, D.C., Counsellor
- 2005–2008: New York City, Deputy Consul General & Deputy Head of Mission, subsequently Acting Consul General
- 2008–2009: New York, Secondment to Eurasia Group, Adviser to the president
- 2009–2014: Ambassador to Chile
- -2017 High Commissioner to Ghana
- 2017 Director of the Diplomatic Academy
