Michael Jenkins (diplomat)

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Sir Michael Jenkins (born 1936) is a former British diplomat.

Born in Cambridge, he joined the Diplomatic Service in 1959; following senior postings in Europe, Washington, and Moscow, he became Ambassador to the Netherlands in 1988 and retired from the Foreign Office in 1993, after which he became Vice-Chairman of Dresdner Kleinwort and then President of Boeing UK.

While serving a tour of duty in Moscow he researched a biography of Aleksey Arakcheyev which was published in 1969, and towards the end of his diplomatic career he wrote a memoir of his youth, A House in Flanders.