Jon Benjamin (diplomat)

Jon Benjamin was brought up in Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, attending Slough Grammar School. He read German and Swedish at the University of Surrey.[1]

• 1986: Desk Officer for Pakistan
• 1986–1987: Desk Officer for Burma and Laos, South East Asian Department
• 1988–1991: Jakarta, Third, later Second Secretary (Political)
• 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 (Counter-terrorism and Human Rights)
• 2005–2008: New York City, Deputy Consul General & Deputy Head of Mission, subsequently Acting Consul General
• 2008–2009: New York, Secondment to Eurasia Group (political risk consultancy), Adviser to the president[2]
• 2009–2014: Ambassador to Chile[3]
• 2014-2017 High Commissioner to Ghana[4]
• 2017 Director of the Diplomatic Academy
• 2021 Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Mexico

• Daniel Obinim

• BENJAMIN, Jonathan, (Jon), Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013
• Jon Benjamin, gov.uk