Sir Christopher Leslie George Mallaby GCMG GCVO (7 July 1936 – 28 February 2022) was a British diplomat.

The son of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby CIE OBE and Margaret Catherine Mallaby (née Jones), he was educated at Eton College and studied Modern Languages and History at King's College, Cambridge.

[1] Mallaby was chairman of Somerset House Trust from 2002–2006, and trustee of the Tate Gallery Group 1996-2002.

In an interview in 2009, when asked how bad the relationship between the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher and Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl was, Mallaby replied, "Very bad.

[5][6] In 1961 Mallaby married Pascale Thierry-Mieg, and they had a son, Sebastian, and three daughters.