Jane Coombs is a New Zealand diplomat who was Ambassador to South Korea and has been the Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) since September 2017. She is cross accredited to France, Monaco, Portugal and Senegal. [1] [2]
Coombs studied at St Hilda's Collegiate School. [2]
Rosemary Banks is a New Zealand diplomat who serves as the Ambassador of New Zealand to the United States since 2024 and between 2018 and 2022. She is the first woman to hold the position.
A permanent representative is a diplomat who is the head of a country's diplomatic mission to an international organisation.
John Walter McKinnon is a New Zealand diplomat and public servant.
Adrian Macey, is a New Zealand diplomat.
Carsten Staur is a Danish diplomat who has been chairing the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee since 2023 He previously served as the Permanent Representative of Denmark to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. Prior to this he was Denmark's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva (2013–2018), and before that Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York (2007–2013).
Edward Richard Woods, is a New Zealand diplomat and public servant. He is currently Chair of the Board of the Environmental Risk Management Authority, a New Zealand Government Agency that ensures compliance with the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act – HSNO Act 1996. He took over as chairman on the retirement of Neil Walter.
Ambassador Ersin Erçin is a senior Turkish diplomat, with an extensive experience in multilateral diplomacy particularly on matters of international, Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security, disarmament, and economic and environmental security.
Vangelis (Evangelos) Vitalis is a New Zealand diplomat and trade negotiator currently working as the Deputy Secretary for the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Chris Hoornaert is a Belgian diplomat. Hoornaert served as Head of Mission of the European Union Delegation to Panama between 2018 and 2022. From 2014 to 2018 he was the Ambassador of Belgium to the Netherlands. Between 2011 and 2014, he served as "Ambassador of the Port of Antwerp," a position created in 2008.
The ambassador and permanent representative of Australia to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the delegation of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and has been sent since Australia, represented by Deputy Prime Minister Doug Anthony and Ambassador to France Alan Renouf, acceded to the OECD on 7 June 1971. The delegation to the OECD is based with the Australian Embassy in Paris and the ambassador has resided in the embassy since its opening in 1978.
Maria Assunta Accili Sabbatini is an Italian diplomat.
Martine Schommer is a Luxembourg diplomat who has served as Ambassador to the People's Republic of China and to the Federal Republic of Germany. She has also represented Luxembourg as Permanent Representative to the European Union. Since September 2017, she has been Luxembourg's Permanent Representative to the OECD and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO.
Christopher David Beeby was a New Zealand diplomat who held several ambassadorships and was involved in international litigation and negotiations, notably over Antarctic resources. Beeby was New Zealand's ambassador to Iran and to France and was a member of the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body from 1995 to his death in 2000. While ambassador to Iran, Beeby assisted American diplomats in the Iran hostage crisis.
Owston Paul Gabites was a New Zealand diplomat who served as the 8th Administrator of Tokelau from June 1965 to 1968, and ambassador of New Zealand to France between 1969 and 1975.