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.
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.
[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.