Catherine Arnold | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Arnold in 2018 | |
| British Ambassador to Mongolia | |
| In office May 2015 – March 2018 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Christopher Stuart |
| Succeeded by | Philip Malone |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 November 1978 Pusan, South Korea |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Education | Overseas School of Colombo Ryde School with Upper Chine |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MPhil) University of Nottingham (MA) |
Catherine Elizabeth Jane Arnold, OBE (born 10 November 1978) is a British academic administrator and former diplomat. From October 2019 to October 2024, she was the Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge: she was the fifteenth person to hold that post and the first woman. From May 2015 until 2018, she served as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Mongolia. After three degrees, she worked as a management consultant and then journalist and then joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2006.