Rodric Braithwaite

Rodric Braithwaite

Sir Rodric Quentin Braithwaite, GCMG (born 17 May, 1932) is a British diplomat and author.

Braithwaite was educated at Bedales School and Christ's College, Cambridge. After his Military Service, he joined the Foreign Service in 1955. His diplomatic career included posts in Indonesia, Italy, Poland, the Soviet Union, and a number of positions at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 1988 to 1992 Braithwaite was ambassador in Moscow, first of all to the Soviet Union and then to the Russian Federation. Subsequently, he was the Prime Minister's foreign policy adviser and chairman of the UK Joint Intelligence Committee (1992-93), and was awarded the GCMG in 1994.

He is the author of "Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down" and "Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War".

References

* [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FDOHP%2030 British Diplomatic Oral History Programme]


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