Biography

Sir John Jenkins was the British Ambassador to several countries in the Middle East, including Syria, Iraq, Libya and Saudi Arabia. Upon his retirement from the Foreign Office in 2015, he was the government’s senior diplomatic Arabist. Most recently, Sir John was Executive Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2015-2017) and a Senior Fellow at the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs (2017). He took an active part in Sir John Chilcott’s Iraq Inquiry and was asked by the Prime Minister in March 2014 to lead a Policy Review into the Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islamism.

 

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