Alan Charlton new Canning House Chairman

Alan Charlton has been appointed as the new Chairman of Canning House. He has been welcomed to the role by Canning House CEO Jeremy Browne.

Alan Charlton was British Ambassador to Brazil and founded the UK-Brazil Conversa, subsequently subsumed into the Canning House Brazil Summit meetings.

Alan served 35 years in the Diplomatic Service including in the Middle East, Germany and the United States. He was deeply involved in diplomacy to end the conflicts in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. He comments on radio and TV on foreign affairs.

He was a Trustee at De Montfort University and Sherborne School Dorset and Qatar and trained UK and foreign civil servants in negotiation and diplomacy. He lectures on cruise ships. He has written five books on family history and one about episodes from his diplomatic career. He is a Samaritans listening volunteer.