Margaret Adamson is an Australian diplomat who has served as Deputy High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea; Ambassador to Cambodia; Ambassador to Poland; Consul General to Berlin; and High Commissioner to Pakistan. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Adamson graduated from Australian National University with a BA in Pure Mathematics and Psychology with a minor in Sociology in 1974 and a Diploma of Education at the University of Canberra. [1] She then served in the Australian diplomatic missions to Hanoi and Vienna. From 1987 to 1991, she served as a counsellor for the Australian embassy in Bonn, and after German reunification, until 1996 in Berlin.
From 1998 to 2002, she served as Ambassador to Poland. [9] Following her return from Poland, she became a senior official within the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In 2007, she was named Ambassador to Cambodia, taking over from Lisa Filipetto. [10] Her most recent posting was as High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2015 to 2019. [11]
Margaret Eileen Twomey is Ambassador of Australia to Italy. She is former High Commissioner of Australia to Fiji, from November 2014 to November 2017. Twomey has an honours degree in Arts from the University of Melbourne. Her grandfather Patrick Joseph Twomey started the PJ Twomey Hospital for Lepers in Fiji.
Patrick Colin Lawless is an Australian diplomat and senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
The high commissioner of Australia to the Solomon Islands is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the High Commission of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Solomon Islands. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and is based with the High Commission on the corner of Hibiscus Avenue and Mud Alley, Honiara.
The Australian high commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the High Commission of the Commonwealth of Australia in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and the high commissioner resides in Port of Spain. The high commissioner, since March 2023, has been Sonya Koppe.