{{Short description|British ambassador and civil servant}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Andrew Mitchell | office = British Ambassador to Germany | monarch = Charles III | predecessor = Jill Gallard | office1 = British Ambassador to Sweden | term_start1 = 2007 | term_end1 = 2011 | prime_minister1 = Tony Blair<br>Gordon Brown<br>David Cameron | monarch1 = Elizabeth II | predecessor1 = Anthony Cary | successor1 = Paul Johnston | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|3|7|df=yes}} | death_date =
| prime_minister = Keir Starmer | term_start = 4 September 2024 | birth_place = Ormskirk, England | children = 3 | alma_mater = The Queen's College, Oxford | honorific_suffix = CMG | honorific_prefix = His Excellency | image = Andrew Mitchell ambassador.jpg }} {{Not to be confused with|Andrew Mitchell|text=the contemporary British politician of the same name. See a listing of other people called Andrew Mitchell}}
'''Andrew Jonathan Mitchell''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (born 7 March 1967) is a British ambassador and civil servant. From 4 September 2024, he has served as the British ambassador to Germany.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Change of His Majesty's Ambassador to Germany: Andrew Mitchell |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-his-majestys-ambassador-to-germany |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrew Mitchell CMG |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/andrew-mitchell--2 |access-date=2024-09-20 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref>
==Early life== Mitchell was educated at St Mary's College, Crosby, and Queen's College, Oxford, where he held the Laming Scholarship and a College Bursary. In 1990 he graduated BA in Modern Languages, with first class honours, and won the Markham Prize.<ref name=WW>[https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245336 "Mitchell, Andrew Jonathan (born 7 March 1967), HM Diplomatic Service"], ''Who's Who'' online edition by Oxford University Press, accessed 25 February 2026 {{subscription}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Ambassadors in Germany |url=https://www.diplomatisches-magazin.de/en/ambassadors/andrew-jonathan-mitchell/ |access-date=2024-11-06 |website=diplomatisches-magazin.de |language=en}}</ref>
== Career == Mitchell joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1991, serving in Bonn and Kathmandu as well as in the UK.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Mitchell, Andrew Jonathan, (born 7 March 1967) |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-245336 |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=Who's Who |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245336}}</ref> He was appointed British Ambassador to Sweden in 2007, serving for four years.<ref name=":0" />
Returning to the Whitehall, Mitchell was the Foreign Office's director for the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, and thence for prosperity for three years until 2014.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Whitefield |first=Mimi |date=2014-09-28 |title=Q&A with Andrew Mitchell, British diplomat in charge of prosperity |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/biz-monday/article2286641.html |access-date=2024-04-14 |work=Miami Herald}}</ref> He then moved to the private sector, working as international director for M-Integrated Solutions for three years from 2015,<ref name=":0" /> before returning to government in 2018 as HM Trade Commissioner for Europe.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Griffiths |first=Katherine |date=2018-07-06 |title=Former ambassador given key role for Europe |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/former-ambassador-given-key-commissioner-role-for-europe-27fqspl5z |access-date=2024-04-14 |work=The Times |language=en |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>
In 2020, Mitchell moved to the Department for International Trade as director-general overseeing "markets and supply chains", from 2021 "exports and UK trade", and from 2023 "domestic and international markets and exports" in the renamed Department for Business and Trade.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
== Personal life == In 1996, Mitchell married Helen Magee, and they have two sons and one daughter.<ref name=WW/> He speaks English, German, French, Spanish and Swedish.<ref name=":2" />
== Honours == Mitchell was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in New Year Honours for 2013, "for services to London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games".<ref name="GBR">The United Kingdom:{{London Gazette | issue = 60367 | date = 28 December 2012 | page = 3 | supp = 1 }}</ref>
== References == <references />
== External links == * [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/andrew-mitchell--2 Mitchell's page on GOV.UK]
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