[1] Jonathan holds an MA in law from Oxford University, and he is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

[2] Knott joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1988 and has held a variety of diplomatic posts at home and abroad, several with a particular focus on commercial and corporate finance issues.

He has been posted in Havana, Mexico City, Paris, Seoul, Budapest and Warsaw.

In April 2016, he was appointed as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Republic of Poland,[2] ending his term in 2020.

[5] Jonathan Knott became Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Latin America and the Caribbean in February 2021.