Arthur Snell

For the head of the Canadian military medical service, see Arthur Evans Snell.

Arthur Snell
Born (1975-10-30) 30 October 1975 (age 49)
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Occupation(s)Political commentator
Author
Known forFormer British High Commissioner for Trinidad & Tobago

Arthur Snell (born 30 October 1975[1]) is a British author, political commentator, and former diplomat who served as the United Kingdom's High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago from 2011 to 2014. His father is electronics engineer Roderick Snell.

Snell was born in South East England and attended Bedales School, later graduating from the University of Oxford in History.[2] Following work at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, he held several diplomatic postings in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan.[2] He was appointed the United Kingdom's High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago in 2010 and assumed his post in June 2011.[3]

He has also headed the Foreign Office contribution to the UK's "Prevent" anti-terrorism programme.[4] 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 Steele Dossier on Donald Trump.[5][6]

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.[7]

Since January 2020, Snell has been a regular contributor and host to the political podcast 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.[8][9]  As the series completed, he later continued the Doomsday podcast in another series on the back of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, speaking with experts about conflict.   

In July 2022 he published his first book "How Britain Broke the World". [10]

  1. ^ "Birthdays". The Independent. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Arthur Snell, High Commissioner, Trinidad and Tobago, 39
  2. ^ a b "Change of British High Commissioner to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago". gov.uk. Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  3. ^ "British High Commissioner Arthur Snell presents credentials". news.gov.tt. Government of Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  4. ^ Parveen, Nazia (22 February 2017). "Tony Blair attacks Daily Mail's 'hypocrisy' over suicide bomber". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Companies House".
  6. ^ "Salman Abedi's path to jihadism in Manchester began in Libya and ended bloodily in Britain". Sydney Morning Herald. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  7. ^ "China attempting elite capture in UK: Report".
  8. ^ "Doomsday Watch with Arthur Snell". Patreon. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  9. ^ "Arthur Snell's Podcast Credits & Interviews | Podchaser". Podchaser.
  10. ^ Snell, Arthur (2022). How Britain broke the world : war, greed and blunders from Kosovo to Afghanistan, 1997-2022. Kingston upon Thames. ISBN 978-1-912454-61-7. OCLC 1336403742.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)