Ambassador of Australia to Spain | |
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Incumbent Sophia McIntyre since 26 June 2020 | |
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | |
Style | Her Excellency |
Reports to | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
Residence | Madrid |
Nominator | Prime Minister of Australia |
Appointer | Governor General of Australia |
Inaugural holder | Lawrence John Lawrey |
Formation | 1969 |
Website | Australian Embassy, Spain |
The Ambassador of Australia to Spain is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Kingdom of Spain. The ambassador resides in Madrid. [1] The ambassador also holds non-resident accreditation as ambassador to Andorra (since 1998) and Equatorial Guinea (since 2009). [2]
The current ambassador, since June 2020, is Sophia McIntyre.
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Ordinal | Officeholder | Other offices | Term start date | Term end date | Time in office | Notes |
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1 | Lawrence John Lawrey | 1969 | 1971 | 1–2 years | [3] | |
2 | Dudley McCarthy | 1972 | 1976 | 3–4 years | ||
3 | Hugh Gilchrist | 1977 | 1979 | 1–2 years | ||
4 | K. H. Rogers | 1980 | 1984 | 3–4 years | ||
5 | D. G. Wilson | 1985 | 1985 | 0 years | ||
6 | Harry Jenkins | 1986 | 1988 | 1–2 years | [4] [5] [6] | |
7 | H. C. Mott | 1989 | 1991 | 1–2 years | ||
8 | Warwick Pearson | 1992 | 1996 | 3–4 years | ||
9 | Richard Starr | A | 1997 | 2000 | 2–3 years | |
10 | Tim George | A | 2000 | 2003 | 2–3 years | [7] |
11 | Susan Tanner | A | 2003 | 2006 | 2–3 years | [8] |
12 | Noel Campbell | A B | 2006 | 2010 | 3–4 years | [9] |
13 | Zorica McCarthy | A B | 2010 | 2013 | 2–3 years | [10] |
14 | Jane Hardy | A B | 2013 | 2014 | 0–1 years | [11] [12] |
15 | Virginia Greville | A B | 1 May 2015 | 25 May 2018 | 3 years, 24 days | [13] [14] |
16 | Julie-Ann Guivarra | A B | 25 May 2018 | January 2020 | 1 year, 7 months | [15] |
17 | Sophia McIntyre | A B | 26 June 2020 | incumbent | 3 years, 350 days | [16] |
Julie-Ann Guivarra is an Australian diplomat who was the first Indigenous person to serve as a senior executive in the Australian Foreign Ministry and the first Indigenous woman to represent Australia as an ambassador, serving as Ambassador to Spain from 2018 to 2020 with non-resident accreditation to Andorra and Equatorial Guinea. In May 2020, she was appointed as Australia's Ambassador for Gender Equality.