Christopher Prentice was appointed as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Iraq in September 2007.

Christopher joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1977 after graduating from Oxford with a first class Honours degree in Classics.  After Arabic language training, he was posted to Kuwait from 1980 to 1983.

Christopher was seconded to the Cabinet Office where he worked as a Middle East Analyst from 1983 to 1985.  Christopher subsequently served in the British Embassy in Washington from 1985 to 1989 working on the Middle East and South Asia.  He served briefly as Assistant Head of the European Community Department and then as Assistant Private Secretary to British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd between 1990 and 1993.

After studying Hungarian in 1993, he became Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Budapest.

Christopher was then appointed as Head of Near East and North Africa Department before becoming Ambassador to Jordan from 2002 to 2006.   From 2006 to 2007 he became Ambassador at Large for the Sudan Peace Process (and UK Special Representative).

Christopher was born in 1954.  He is married to Nina and has two sons and two daughters.