Full Name : Mark Andrew Geoffrey Kent
Married to : Martine Delogne
Children : One son, one daughter

February 2008 onwards Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

2005 – 2007: Head of Migration Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
2004 – 2005: Secondment to SHAPE, Belgium, International Affairs Advisor to Supreme Allied Commander Europe
2000 - 2004: Mexico City, First Secretary, later Consul General and Commercial Counsellor
1998 - 2000: News Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1993 - 1998: UK Permanent Representation to the European Union, Brussels, First Secretary External Relations
1989 - 1993: Brasilia, Third Secretary later Second Secretary
1987 - 1989: Near East and North Africa Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Education

BA degree in Law from Oxford University in 1986
Post-graduate qualifications in European Law from the University of Brussels and business administration from the Open University

Languages

French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch and basic Vietnamese.