Jonathan Knott
Introduction
Jonathan Knott is a British diplomat and has been the British Ambassador to Poland since April 2016. He also served as the British Ambassador to Hungary between 2012 and 2015.
Personal life
Jonathan holds an MA in law from Oxford University, and he is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He speaks English, French, Spanish and Hungarian. He is married to Angela Susan Knott and has one daughter and two sons.
Career
Knott joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1988 and has held a variety of diplomatic posts at home and abroad, several with a particular focus on commercial and corporate finance issues. He has been posted in Havana, Mexico City, Paris, Seoul, Budapest and Warsaw. Knott was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Hungary between February 2012 and April 2015. In April 2016, he was appointed as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Republic of Poland.