Arthur Snell

Arthur Snell is a British businessman and former diplomat who served as the United Kingdom's High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago from 2011 to 2014. His father is electronics engineer Roderick Snell.

For the head of the Canadian military medical service, see Arthur Evans Snell.

Snell was born in England and attended Bedales School, later graduating from the University of Oxford in History.[1] Following work at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, he held several diplomatic postings in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan.[1] He was appointed the United Kingdom's High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago in 2010 and assumed his post in June 2011.[2] He has also headed the Foreign Office contribution to the UK's "Prevent" anti-terrorism programme.[3] Snell later left government service and is managing director of Orbis Business Intelligence, a risk consultancy, where one of his fellow directors is Christopher Steele.[4][5]

In 2020, Snell contributed to a report commission by Andrew Duncan a Scottish-American film producer, which looked at attempts to capture UK elite by China which was also contributed to by former MI6 officer, Christopher Steele who had compiled the infamous Steele Dossier on Donald Trump.[6]

References
  1. "Change of British High Commissioner to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago". gov.uk. Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  2. "British High Commissioner Arthur Snell presents credentials". news.gov.tt. Government of Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  3. Parveen, Nazia (22 February 2017). "Tony Blair attacks Daily Mail's 'hypocrisy' over suicide bomber". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  4. "Companies House".
  5. "Salman Abedi's path to jihadism in Manchester began in Libya and ended bloodily in Britain". Sydney Morning Herald. June 5, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  6. "China attempting elite capture in UK: Report".
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