Christopher Prentice

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Christopher Norman Russell Prentice (born September 5, 1954) is the current HM British Ambassador to Iraq, the fourth appointed in four years.

Prentice has been a British diplomat since 1977. His most recent post as of September 2007 was as British Ambassador to Iraq (officially Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq).^[1] His previous appointment from 2002 to 2006 was as British Ambassador to Jordan.

The Ambassador speaks both Arabic and Magyar (Hungarian).

Born in The Borough, London, Prentice is a former cricketer who played for Oxford University.^[1]

He is married to Marie-Josephine (Nina) and has two sons and two daughters. A daughter Helen, a trainee doctor, married his predecessor's nephew Hon. Mark Asquith in May 2008 in Somerset.

[edit] Career highlights

1977 – 1978 FCO, Desk Officer, Near East and North Africa Department
1985 – 1989 Washington, First secretary (Near East and South Asia)
1989 – 1990 FCO, Assistant Head of European Community Department (External)
1990 – 1993 FCO, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd
1994 – 1998 Budapest, Deputy Head of Mission
1998 – 2002 FCO, Head of Near East and North Africa Department
2002 – 2006 Amman, Her Majesty's Ambassador
2006 – 2007 UK Special Representative, later FCO Co-ordinator for the Sudan Peace Process
2007 - Iraq, Her Majesty's Ambassador