Education
Brummell was educated at Street Albans School before reading geography at Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge.
Brummell was educated at Street Albans School before reading geography at Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge.
He entered the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1987. After stints in Pakistan, Italy, and in Whitehall, Brummell received his first posting as head of a diplomatic mission in 2002, as Ambassador to Turkmenistan. In 2005, he made the relatively short move to head the embassy in Kazakhstan, a position that also includes being non-resident ambassador to Kyrgyzstan.
In 2008 he invited the United States ambassador, Tatiana Gfoeller, to a meeting with the Duke of York and British businessmen.
Her report to Washington, leaked by WikiLeaks and reported by British and international media, mentioned indiscreet remarks by the Duke. In 2009 Brummell was transferred to Bridgetown, Barbados, as High Commissioner to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Street Kitts and Nevis, Street Lucia, and Street Vincent and the Grenadines) and United Kingdom representative to CARICOM and the OECS. In September 2014 Brummell took up the post of ambassador to Romania.