List of High Commissioners and Ambassadors of Australia

The following is the list of High Commissioners and ambassadors from Australia. The high commissioners and ambassadors are listed in alphabetical order by country, and the information below is current as of July 2014.^[1]

Embassies and High Commissions

Country accredited to	Photo	Head of Mission	Title	Date appointed	Date presented credentials to receiving country head of state
Afghanistan		Jon Philp	Ambassador	9 August 2012[2]	31 January 2013[3]
Argentina^1		Patricia Holmes	Ambassador	13 September 2011[4]	10 April 2012[5]
Austria^2		David Stuart	Ambassador	5 July 2012[6]	12 September 2012[7]
Bangladesh		Greg Wilcock	High Commissioner	14 June 2012[8]	19 July 2012[9]
Belgium^3		Mark Higgie	Ambassador	September 2014[10]	September 2014
Brazil		Patrick Lawless	Ambassador	12 February 2014[11]
Brunei		Todd Mercer	High Commissioner	5 July 2012[12]
Cambodia		Alison Burrows	Ambassador	14 March 2013[13]	30 May 2013[14]
Canada		Tony Negus	High Commissioner	15 January 2015[15]
Chile^4		Tim Kane	Ambassador	29 May 2012[16]	14 August 2012[17]
China		Frances Adamson	Ambassador	20 March 2011[18]	16 August 2011[19]
Croatia		Susan Cox	Ambassador	28 September 2012[20]	14 December 2012[21]
Cyprus		Trevor Peacock	High Commissioner	13 June 2011[22]	13 September 2011[23]
Denmark^8		Damien Miller	Ambassador	1 April 2013[24]	14 June 2013[25]
Egypt^5		Ralph King	Ambassador	13 December 2011[26]
Ethiopia^6		Mark Sawers	Ambassador	18 September 2014
Federated States of Micronesia^7		Terry Beven	Ambassador	10 November 2013[27]	17 January 2014[28]
Fiji^36		Margaret Twomey	High Commissioner	November 2014 -	-
France^9		Stephen Brady	Ambassador	31 March 2014[29]
Germany^10		David Ritchie	Ambassador	24 October 2013[30]
Ghana^11		Joanna Adamson	High Commissioner	28 September 2012[31]	12 March 2013[32]
Greece^12		John Griffin	Ambassador	3 June 2014 [33]
Holy See		John McCarthy	Ambassador	29 April 2012[34]	5 November 2012[35]
India^13		Patrick Suckling	High Commissioner	30 December 2012[36]	22 January 2013[37]
Indonesia		Greg Moriarty	Ambassador	11 July 2010[38]
Iran		Paul Foley	Ambassador	19 April 2013[39]	6 July 2013[40]
Iraq		Lyndall Sachs	Ambassador	30 July 2011[41]
Ireland		Ruth Adler	Ambassador	7 September 2012[42]	16 January 2013[43]
Israel		Dave Sharma	Ambassador	16 May 2013[44]	8 August 2013[45]
Italy^14		Mike Rann	Ambassador	31 March 2014[46]
Japan		Bruce Miller	Ambassador	7 April 2011[47]
Jordan		Heidi Venamore	Ambassador	30 January 2012[48]	5 March 2012[49]
Kenya^15		John Feakes	High Commissioner	9 December 2014[50]
Kiribati		George Fraser	High Commissioner	29 April 2012[51]
Korea, South^16		Bill Paterson	Ambassador	15 March 2013[52]	8 August 2013[53]
Kuwait		Warren Hauck	Ambassador	9 February 2015.[54]	8 March 2015[55]
Laos		John Williams	Ambassador	5 November 2013[56]	13 February 2014[57]
Lebanon		Lex Bartlem	Ambassador	8 September 2010[58]
Malaysia		Rod Smith	High Commissioner	26 November 2013[59]
Malta^17		Jane Lambert	High Commissioner	11 October 2012[60]	17 January 2013[61]
Mauritius^18		Susan Coles	High Commissioner	13 February 2014[62]
Mexico^19		Tim George	Ambassador	14 September 2012[63]	14 February 2013[64]
Myanmar		Bronte Moules	Ambassador	20 December 2010[65]	24 May 2011[66]
Nauru		Martin Quinn	High Commissioner	13 February 2014[67]	29 April 2014[68]
Nepal		Glenn White	Ambassador	11 March 2013[69]	2 May 2013[70]
Netherlands		Neil Mules	Ambassador	17 July 2011[71]
New Zealand^20		Michael Potts	High Commissioner	25 June 2012[72]	18 July 2012[73]
Nigeria^21		Paul Lehmann	High Commissioner	17 December 2015[74]
Pakistan		Peter Heyward	High Commissioner	7 April 2012[75]	12 July 2012[76]
Papua New Guinea		Deborah Stokes	High Commissioner	12 February 2013[77]
Peru		John Woods	Ambassador	14 July 2010[78]
Philippines		Bill Tweddell	Ambassador	7 November 2011[79]	26 January 2012[80]
Poland^22		Jean Dunn	Ambassador	8 December 2011[81]	17 January 2012[82]
Portugal^23		Anne Plunkett	Ambassador	29 May 2012[83]	9 April 2013[84]
Russia^24		Paul Myler	Ambassador	1 November 2012[85]	24 January 2013[86]
Samoa		Sue Langford	High Commissioner	13 February 2014[87]	18 February 2014[88]
Saudi Arabia^25		Neil Hawkins	Ambassador	14 July 2011[89]
Serbia^26		Julia Feeney	Ambassador	8 November 2013[90]	4 February 2014[91]
Singapore		Philip Green	High Commissioner	24 August 2012[92]	19 November 2012[93]
Solomon Islands		Andrew Byrne	High Commissioner	9 November 2013[94]
South Africa^27		Graeme Wilson	High Commissioner	13 November 2012[95]
Spain^28		Jane Hardy	Ambassador	6 September 2012[96]
Sri Lanka^29		Robyn Mudie	High Commissioner	7 January 2012[97]	12 March 2012[98]
Sweden^30		Gerald Thomson	Ambassador	13 November 2012[99]	24 January 2013[100]
Thailand		James Wise	Ambassador	18 August 2010[101]
Timor-Leste		Peter Doyle	Ambassador	12 February 2014[102]
Tonga		Brett Aldam	High Commissioner	10 January 2013[103]	7 February 2013[104]
Trinidad and Tobago^31		Ross Tysoe	High Commissioner	13 November 2012[105]
Turkey^32		James Larsen	Ambassador	27 November 2013[106]	25 February 2014[107]
Ukraine		Doug Trappett	Ambassador[108]	12 December 2014[109]	14 January 2015[110]
United Arab Emirates^33		Pablo Kang	Ambassador	7 January 2012[111]
United Kingdom^34		Alexander Downer	High Commissioner	31 March 2014[112]
United States		Joe Hockey	Ambassador	29 January 2016
Vanuatu		Jeremy Bruer	High Commissioner	24 August 2012[113]	13 November 2012[114]
Vietnam		Hugh Borrowman	Ambassador	5 May 2012[115]	14 August 2012[116]
Zimbabwe^35		Suzanne McCourt	Ambassador	6 March 2015[117]	16 April 2015[118]

International organisations

Delegation to	Photo	Head of Mission	Title	Date appointed	Date presented credentials
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation		Brendan Berne	Ambassador	5 August 2015[119]
Association of South East Asian Nations		Simon Merrifield	Ambassador	18 September 2013[120]	1 October 2013[121]
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development		Brian Pontifex	Permanent Representative	1 April 2015[122]
United Nations		Gillian Bird	Permanent Representative	28 June 2014[123]
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization		George Mina	Permanent Delegate	9 September 2013
United Nations Office in Geneva		John Quinn	Permanent Representative	September 2014[124]
World Trade Organization		Hamish McCormick	Permanent Representative	25 June 2013[125]

Special interests

Special interest	Photo	Head of Mission	Title	Date appointed
Climate Change		Justin Lee	Ambassador	13 May 2012[126]
Counter terrorism		Miles Armitage	Ambassador	18 May 2014[127]
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria		James Gilling	Ambassador	3 October 2012[128]
People smuggling issues		Craig Chittick	Ambassador	27 May 2012[129]
Women and girls		Natasha Stott Despoja	Ambassador	16 December 2013[130]

Notes

• ^Note 1 : The Ambassador of Australia to Argentina is also accredited to Paraguay and Uruguay as a non-resident ambassador.^[131]
• ^Note 2 : The Ambassador of Australia to Austria is also accredited to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Kosovo, Slovakia, and Slovenia as a non-resident ambassador. The Ambassador also acts as Australia's Resident Representative and Governor on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna and Permanent Representative to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBTO) Preparatory Commission.^[132]
• ^Note 3 : The Ambassador of Australia to Belgium is also accredited to Luxembourg as a non-resident ambassador. The Ambassador also acts as Australia's Ambassador to the European Union and NATO.^[133]
• ^Note 4 : The Ambassador of Australia to Chile is also accredited to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as a non-resident ambassador.^[16]
• ^Note 5 : The Ambassador of Australia to Egypt is also accredited to Eritrea, Sudan and Syria as a non-resident ambassador.^[134]
• ^Note 6 : The Ambassador of Australia to Ethiopia is also accredited to Djibouti and South Sudan as a non-resident ambassador. The Ambassador also acts as Australia's Permanent Representative to the African Union.^[135]
• ^Note 7 : The Ambassador of Australia to the Federated States of Micronesia is also accredited to the Marshall Islands and Palau as a non-resident ambassador. The Ambassador is also the Australian Consul-General to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.^[136]
• ^Note 8 : The Ambassador of Australia to Denmark is also accredited to Norway and Iceland as a non-resident ambassador.
• ^Note 9 : The Ambassador of Australia to France is also accredited to Algeria, Chad, Mauritania, Monaco and Morocco as a non-resident ambassador.^[29]
• ^Note 10 : The Ambassador of Australia to Germany is also accredited to Liechtenstein and Switzerland as a non-resident ambassador.^[30]
• ^Note 11 : The High Commissioner of Australia to Ghana is also accredited to Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo as a non-resident ambassador.^[31]
• ^Note 12 : The Ambassador of Australia to Greece is also accredited to Bulgaria and Romania as a non-resident ambassador.^[33]
• ^Note 13 : The High Commissioner of Australia to India is also accredited to Bhutan as a non-resident ambassador.^[137]
• ^Note 14 : The Ambassador of Australia to Italy is also accredited to Albania, Libya and San Marino as a non-resident ambassador, as well as Australia's Permanent Representative to the Food and Agriculture Organisation and Representative to the World Food Programme.^[46]
• ^Note 15 : The High Commissioner of Australia to Kenya is also accredited to Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda as a non-resident ambassador. The Australian High Commissioner also acts as Australia's Permanent Representative to the East African Community, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT).^[138][139]
• ^Note 16 : The Ambassador of Australia to South Korea is also accredited to Mongolia and North Korea as a non-resident ambassador.^[52]
• ^Note 17 : The High Commissioner of Australia to Malta is also accredited to Tunisia as a non-resident ambassador.^[60]
• ^Note 18 : The High Commissioner of Australia to Mauritius is also accredited to Comoros, Madagascar and Seychelles as a non-resident ambassador.^[62]
• ^Note 19 : The Ambassador of Australia to Mexico is also accredited to Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Nicaragua as a non-resident ambassador.^[63]
• ^Note 20 : The High Commissioner of Australia to New Zealand is also accredited to the Cook Islands as a non-resident High Commissioner.^[72]
• ^Note 21 : The High Commissioner of Australia to Nigeria is also accredited to Benin, Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Niger and The Gambia as a non-resident ambassador.^[140]
• ^Note 22 : The Ambassador of Australia to Poland is also accredited to the Czech Republic and Lithuania, as a non-resident ambassador.^[141]
• ^Note 23 : The Ambassador of Australia to Portugal is also accredited to Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe as a non-resident ambassador.^[83]
• ^Note 24 : The Ambassador of Australia to Russia is also accredited to Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as a non-resident ambassador.^[85]
• ^Note 25 : The Ambassador of Australia to Saudi Arabia is also accredited to Bahrain and Oman as a non-resident ambassador.^[89]
• ^Note 26 : The Ambassador of Australia to Serbia is also accredited to Macedonia and Montenegro as a non-resident ambassador.^[90]
• ^Note 27 : The High Commissioner of Australia to South Africa is also accredited to Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland as a non-resident High Commissioner, and to Angola as a non-resident ambassador. The High Commissioner also acts as Australia's Ambassador to the Southern African Development Community.^[95]
• ^Note 28 : The Ambassador of Australia to Spain is also accredited to Andorra and Equatorial Guinea as a non-resident ambassador.^[96]
• ^Note 29 : The High Commissioner of Australia to Sri Lanka is also accredited to Maldives as a non-resident High Commissioner.^[97]
• ^Note 30 : The Ambassador of Australia to Sweden is also accredited to Estonia, Finland and Latvia as a non-resident ambassador.^[99]
• ^Note 31 : The High Commissioner of Australia to Trinidad and Tobago is also accredited to Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as a non-resident High Commissioner, and to Haiti and Suriname as a non-resident ambassador. The High Commissioner also acts as Australia's Ambassador to CARICOM.^[105]
• ^Note 32 : The Ambassador of Australia to Turkey is also accredited to Azerbaijan and Georgia as a non-resident ambassador.^[106]
• ^Note 33 : The Ambassador of Australia to the United Arab Emirates is also accredited to Qatar as a non-resident ambassador.^[111]
• ^Note 34 : The High Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom is also accredited as Permanent Representative of Australia to the International Maritime Organisation.
• ^Note 35 : The Ambassador of Australia to Zimbabwe is also accredited to Zambia, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of the Congo as a non-resident ambassador.^[142]
• ^Note 36 : On 3 November 2009, Australian High Commissioner James Batley was expelled from Fiji by Frank Bainimarama, who accused him and his New Zealand counterpart of interfering in Fijian domestic politics. Bainimarama also recalled Fijian High Commissioners in Australia and New Zealand.^[143] In July 2012, after trilateral discussions between Australia, Fiji and New Zealand, Australia and New Zealand decided to restore full diplomatic relations with Fiji, and a mutual exchange of High Commissioners would take place with the island nation.^[144] Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, appointed Margaret Twomey as the Australian High Commissioner to Fiji on 15 December 2012.^[145] As of March 2013, the Fijians had still not approved Twomey's visa, leading Bob Carr to opine that the process of resumption of full diplomatic relations between the two countries had been suspended by the Fijian government.^[146]

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