Edmund Fitton-Brown
Former British Ambassador to Yemen | Senior Fellow at FDD
Edmund joined the UK foreign service in 1984 and served in Finland, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates, finishing this phase of his career as British ambassador to Yemen in 2015-2017. He then joined the United Nations for five years, serving as coordinator of the Security Council team responsible for sanctions and threat assessment on ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Taliban. He subsequently worked as a senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project.
Battlefield dynamics in Yemen shift quickly, but Houthi aims do not. A movement organized around radical ideology and perpetual conflict now shares a border with a state organized around [...] More
How will the Houthis respond to the devastating Israeli strikes on Iran? This moment could prove decisive for both the Iran-led axis and the Houthis’ role within it. Historically, the Houthis have [...] More
