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List of Australian Ambassadors to Egypt

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His Excellency

Formation
  
1950

List of Australian Ambassadors to Egypt

Inaugural holder
  
Claude Massey (as Minister to Egypt)

Website
  
Australian Embassy Egypt

The Australian Ambassador to Egypt is the Australian Government's foremost diplomatic representative in Egypt. The Ambassador resides in Cairo and also hold non-resident accreditation as Ambassador to Eritrea, Syria and Sudan. Australia opened its first embassy in the Arab world in Cairo, in 1950. There existed an Embassy in Damascus, Syria from 1977 to 1999. Prior to 1977, accreditation for Syria was held by the embassies in Beirut, Lebanon (1973–1976) and Baghdad, Iraq (1976–1977). In 1991, with its independence, accreditation for Eritrea was held by the High Commission in Nairobi, until it was transferred to the Embassy in Cairo in 2006.

Contents

After the Australian Government closed its post in Syrian embassy in 1999, the Ambassador to Egypt was named responsible for representing Australian interests in Syria.

Ministers to Egypt

  • Claude Massey (1950–1953)
  • Hugh McClure Smith (1953–1955)
  • Roden Cutler (1955–1957)
  • Post withdrawn 9 September 1956.

    Minister to Cairo

  • John Quinn (1960–1961)
  • Ambassadors to the United Arab Republic

  • John Quinn (1961)
  • Francis Hamilton Stuart (1961–1966)
  • L.J. Lawrey (1966–1969)
  • Brian Clarence Hill (1969–1971)
  • Ambassadors to Egypt

  • Brian Clarence Hill (1971–1972)
  • Keith Douglas Scott (1972–1975)
  • Robin Ashwin (1975–1978)
  • Pierre Hutton (1978–1981)
  • Frank Murray (1981–1984)
  • Kenneth Rodgers (1984–1987)
  • Ian Hutcheons (1987–1990)
  • John Crighton (1990–1993)
  • Colin McDonald (1993–1995)
  • Michael Smith (1995–1998)
  • Victoria Owen (1998–2002)
  • Robert Newton (2002–2005)
  • Bob Bowker (2005–2008)
  • Stephanie Schwabsky (2008–2012)
  • Ralph King (2012–2015)
  • Neil Hawkins (2015+)
  • References

    List of Australian Ambassadors to Egypt Wikipedia