Christopher Prentice

{{short description|British diplomat}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = His Excellency

| name = Christopher Prentice

| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CMG}}

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| image = Italy- Christopher Prentice (8435700832).jpg

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| alt = Prentice in 2012

| caption = Prentice in 2012

| order =

| office = Her Majesty's Ambassador to Italy

| monarch =

| term_start = 2011

| term_end = 2016

| primeminister =

| predecessor = Edward Chaplin

| successor = Jill Morris

| order2 =

| office2 = Her Majesty's Ambassador to Iraq

| monarch2 =

| term_start2 = 2007

| term_end2 = 2009

| primeminister2 =

| predecessor2 = Dominic Asquith

| successor2 = Sir John Jenkins

| order3 =

| office3 = Her Majesty's Ambassador to Jordan

| monarch3 =

| term_start3 = 2002

| term_end3 = 2006

| primeminister3 =

| predecessor3 = Edward Chaplin

| successor3 = James Watt

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1954|9|5}}

| birth_place = Southwark, London

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| nationality = British

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| alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford

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| spouse = Marie-Josephine

| children = 4 (2 sons, 2 daughters)

}}

Christopher Norman Russell Prentice {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (born 5 September 1954) is a retired British diplomat. His last diplomatic post was Ambassador to Italy.[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U43021 PRENTICE, Christopher Norman Russell], Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, 2017 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2016) He is currently Chairman of the Governors of the British Institute of Florence.[https://www.britishinstitute.it/en/about-us/the-british-institute-of-florence-today/patrons-and-governing-body] British Institute of Florence website. Retrieved 12 June 2018.

Prentice had been a British diplomat since 1977. From 2002 to 2006 he served as British Ambassador to Jordan, and from 2007 to 2009 as Ambassador to Iraq.