Jeremy Cresswell

Jeremy Michael Cresswell (born 1 October 1949) is a British former diplomat who was High Commissioner to Jamaica and the Bahamas from 2005 to 2009. He retired from the Diplomatic Service in December 2009.

Early life
Cresswell was born in Windsor. He was educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School; Exeter College, Oxford; and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Career
Cresswell entered the FCO  in 1972. He served in Brussels and Kuala Lumpur before becoming Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the FCO in 1980. He was later Deputy Head at the News Department; Assistant Head at the South America Department; Counsellor (Political) for the UK Delegation to NATO; Deputy Head of Mission in Prague; on the Senior Directing Staff at the RCDS; and Head of the European Union Department at the FCO. From 2001 to 2005 he was Minister and Deputy Head of Mission in Berlin.