Joanna Kate Kuenssberg (born 1973)[1] is a British oil executive and former diplomat who was the United Kingdom's High Commissioner to Mozambique from 2014 to 2018.

Her younger sister is Laura Kuenssberg, and they have a brother David who is executive director of finance and resources at Brighton and Hove City Council.

She was seconded to the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1999–2000 and to the Quai d’Orsay EU Directorate 2000–01, followed by a post at the British embassy in Paris 2001–04.

[5] A month after leaving the Foreign Office she began working for the oil company Shell as vice president of government relations with Russia.

After three years she was promoted to vice president of corporate relations with Middle Eastern, North African, and Central Eurasian states.