Arthur Snell (born 30 October 1975) is a British author, political commentator, and former

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who served as the

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's High Commissioner to

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from 2011 to 2014. His father is electronics engineer Roderick Snell.

Biography

Snell was born on 30 October 1975, in

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and attended

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, later graduating from the

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in History. Following work at the

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, he held several diplomatic postings in

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and

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. He was appointed the United Kingdom's High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago in 2010 and assumed his post in June 2011. He has also headed the Foreign Office contribution to the UK's " Prevent" anti-terrorism programme. Snell later left government service and is managing director of Orbis Business Intelligence, a risk consultancy, where one of his fellow directors is former MI6 officer, Christopher Steele who compiled the

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. In 2020, Snell contributed to a report commissioned by Andrew Duncan, a Scottish-American film producer, which looked at attempts to influence UK elites by China, which was also contributed to by Christopher Steele. Since January 2020, Snell has been a regular contributor and host to the political

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''The Bunker'', which a spinoff of the podcast ''" Oh God, What Now?"''. Later in November 2021, he started his own geopolitical podcast, called ''Doomsday Watch'' talking to experts about geopolitical issues. As the series completed, he later continued the Doomsday podcast in another series on the back of

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, speaking with experts about conflict. In July 2022, he published his first book "''How Britain Broke the World"''.

References

External links

Official government biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Snell, Arthur Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford British diplomats High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Trinidad and Tobago 1975 births People educated at Bedales School