Chris Campbell (diplomat)


Christopher John Campbell is a British diplomat who has served as the British Ambassador to the Dominican Republic since 2015. From November 2020, he will serve as the Ambassador to Ecuador.

Consular career

Campbell joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1982 and started in the North America Department. In 1984, he moved to the Secretary of State's Private Office and the next year was placed to the UK Embassy in Khartoum as an economist. From 1988 he worked at the embassy in Dhaka and from 1992 at the embassy in Jakarta.
He served as the Ambassador to Nicaragua from 2011 to 2015.
He and his wife, Sharon Campbell, were the first married couple ever to be ambassadors to neighbouring countries.