Joanna Kuenssberg

Joanna Kate Kuenssberg (born 1973) is a British oil executive and former diplomat who was the United Kingdom's high commissioner to Mozambique from 2014 to 2018.

Early life and education Kuenssberg was born in Lima, Peru, a daughter of Nick Kuenssberg, a Scottish businessman who was working in Lima at the time, and his wife Sally Robertson. Her younger sister is Laura Kuenssberg, and they have a brother David who is executive director of finance and resources at Brighton and Hove City Council. She attended Laurel Bank School in Glasgow. She was educated at New College, Oxford, where she gained a BA degree in modern languages in 1995. She was replaced in July 2018.

A month after leaving the Foreign Office she began working for the oil company Shell as vice president of government relations with Russia. After three years she was promoted to vice president of corporate relations with Middle Eastern, North African, and Central Eurasian states.

Personal life Kuenssberg married in 1997 and has three sons. Eberhard von Künßberg married the Protestant-raised Dr. Katharina Samson, the daughter of wealthy cloth manufacturer Gustav Samson, and Anna Goldschmidt, the fourth daughter of Hermann and Rosalie Goldschmidt.

Professor Dr. Eberhard von Künßberg was a scholar in the history of German law, a professor at the University of Heidelberg, a legal linguist and a pioneer in the field of legal geography. From the death of Richard Schroeder in 1917 until von Künßberg's own death in 1941, he edited the Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch.

Her maternal line includes her great-uncle James Wilson Robertson, the last British governor-general of Nigeria; and Lord Robertson, her maternal grandfather.