Michael Davenport (diplomat)

Michael Hayward Davenport MBE (born 25 September 1961) is a British diplomat, currently serving as British Ambassador to Kuwait.[1]

Davenport studied French and German at Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge University. He lectured at Graz University in Austria from 1983-1984 and then trained as a solicitor at Macfarlanes in London.[2]

He changed careers to join the Foreign Office in 1988, starting as a Desk Officer in the East Africa Department.[1] He served in Russia and Poland, where he was Consul-General and Direction of Trade Promotion (2000-2003), then as Deputy Head of Mission in Cairo. From 2010-2013 he served as British Ambassador to Serbia and from 2013 to 2017 as EU Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation in Serbia. He is an Honorary Citizen of Pančevo, Serbia. In October 2017 he presented his credentials to Sheikh Sabah, Amir of Kuwait as British Ambassador to the State of Kuwait.[1]

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Stephen Wordsworth		 British Ambassador to Serbia
2010-2013		 Succeeded by
David McFarlane
Preceded by
Matthew Lodge		 British Ambassador to Kuwait
2017 - present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent

References
  1. "Michael Davenport MBE". GOV.UK.
  2. "Davenport, Michael Hayward". Who's Who (UK). Retrieved 15 April 2019.


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