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Andrew Jonathan Mitchell CMG is Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Europe. He took on the role in July 2018.

Andrew Mitchell was educated at St Mary’s College, Crosby and The Queen’s College, Oxford, where he took a First in Modern Languages in 1990. Andrew Mitchell joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1991 and was posted as Second Secretary to the British Embassy in Bonn (1993-1996), then as Deputy Head of Mission, latterly Chargé d’Affaires at the British Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal (1999-2003). Andrew Mitchell was appointed British Ambassador to Sweden in 2007 and then served as Director of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the FCO. He was Director, Prosperity at the FCO from 2012-2015 before taking a role in the private sector as Director at M-IS, a marketing, communications and creative agency based in London. Andrew Mitchell returned to government, and the Department for International Trade, in 2018, and is based, as Trade Commissioner for Europe, at the British Consulate in Milan, Italy. He was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 2013.