Ambassador of Australia to Denmark | |
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Incumbent Kerin Ayyalaraju since August 2021 | |
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | |
Style | Her Excellency |
Reports to | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
Residence | Copenhagen |
Nominator | Prime Minister of Australia |
Appointer | Governor-General of Australia |
Inaugural holder | Lloyd Thomson (resident in The Hague) |
Formation | November 1970 |
Website | Australian Embassy, Denmark |
The Ambassador of Australia to Denmark is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of Australia in Denmark. The Ambassador, since August 2021, is Kerin Ayyalaraju, who resides in Copenhagen. [1] The ambassador also holds non-resident accreditation for Iceland (1984–1997; since 2000) and Norway (since 2000). Accreditation was also previously held for Latvia and Lithuania following their regaining independence (1991–1997). [2] The embassy was first opened in November 1970, when the existing Consulate-General in Copenhagen was upgraded, and the embassy remained until it was closed in May 1997 due to "budgetary pressures". While accreditation passed to the Australian Embassy in Sweden in the period after that, the embassy was reopened May 2000. [3]
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Ordinal | Name | Title | Other offices | Residency | Term start date | Term end date | Time in office | Notes |
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1 | Lloyd Thomson | Ambassador of Australia to Denmark | The Hague, Netherlands | November 1970 | 1971 | 0–1 years | [4] | |
(n/a) | Gerald Harding | Chargé d'affaires | Copenhagen, Denmark | 1971 | 1974 | 2–3 years | ||
2 | Ruth Dobson | Ambassador of Australia to Denmark | A | 1974 | 1978 | 3–4 years | ||
3 | James Humphreys | A | 1978 | 1980 | 1–2 years | |||
4 | Ronald Walker | A | 1980 | 1983 | 2–3 years | |||
5 | Anthony Dingle | A | 1983 | 1987 | 3–4 years | |||
6 | Jeffrey Benson | A | 1987 | 1991 | 3–4 years | |||
7 | John Burgess | A B C | 4 March 1991 | April 1995 | 4 years | [5] | ||
8 | Garry Conroy | A B C | April 1995 | May 1997 | 2 years, 1 month | [6] | ||
9 | Judith Pead | Stockholm, Sweden | May 1997 | 1999 | 1–2 years | |||
10 | Stephen Brady | 1999 | May 2000 | 0–1 years | [7] | |||
11 | Malcolm Leader | A D | Copenhagen, Denmark | May 2000 | 2003 | 2–3 years | [8] | |
(n/a) | Charles Stuart | Chargé d'affaires | 2003 | 2003 | 0 years | |||
12 | Matthew Peek | Ambassador of Australia to Denmark | A D | 2003 | 2006 | 2–3 years | [9] | |
13 | Sharyn Minahan | A D | 2006 | 2010 | 3–4 years | [10] | ||
14 | James Choi | A D | 2010 | 2013 | 2–3 years | [11] | ||
15 | Damien Miller | A D | 2013 | 11 April 2017 | 3–4 years | [12] | ||
16 | MaryEllen Miller | A D | 11 April 2017 | December 2020 | 3 years, 7 months | [13] [14] | ||
(n/a) | Asmeret Kidane | Chargé d'affaires | August 2021 | August 2021 | 0–1 years | |||
17 | Kerin Ayyalaraju | Ambassador of Australia to Denmark | A D | August 2021 | incumbent | 1 year, 4 months | [15] |
Stephen Christopher Brady is a former Australian career diplomat. In 1999 he and his partner Peter Stephens became the world's first officially acknowledged same sex ambassadorial couple, when they were presented to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark at the start of Brady's posting as Australian Ambassador to Denmark. From September 2008 to June 2014 he was the Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia. During this time he was also Secretary of the Council of the Order of Australia and Secretary of the Bravery Decorations Council. In March 2014 his appointment as Ambassador to the French Republic, with concurrent accreditation to the Kingdom of Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Principality of Monaco was announced.
Foreign relations exist between Australia and Lithuania. Australia was among the first countries to re-recognise Lithuania's independence on 27 August 1991. Both countries formally established diplomatic relations on 6 November 1991. Australia is represented in Lithuania through its embassy in Warsaw, Poland and an honorary consulate in Vilnius. Lithuania has had an embassy in Canberra since 2021, and also has honorary consulates in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Darwin.
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