Edmund Fitton-Brown worked in the British foreign service from 1984 until 2017, culminating as UK Ambassador for Yemen in 2015-17. He then joined the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the United Nations Security Council and coordinated their threat assessment and sanctions work from 2018 to 2022. He now works as a consultant in Austin, Texas, specialising in counterterrorism, counter-extremism, national and international security, and geostrategic issues in the Middle East, North Africa and South-Central Asia.