List of Australian Ambassadors to Ethiopia

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Ambassador of Australia to Ethiopia
Permanent Representative of Australia to the African Union
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Incumbent
Mark Sawers
since 18 September 2014
Style His Excellency
Nominator Prime Minister of Australia
Appointer Governor General of Australia
Inaugural holder Les Luck (Chargé d'Affaires)
Formation 11 December 1984
Website Australian Embassy, Ethiopia

The Ambassador of Australia to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative of Australia to the African Union 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 Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, holds non-resident accreditation for Djibouti and South Sudan (since 2011) and acts as Australia's Permanent Representative to the African Union Commission.

The Ambassador is currently Mark Sawers.[1] Ethiopia and Australia have enjoyed diplomatic relations since 1965 when Australia sent Walter Crocker to be High Commissioner to Kenya in Nairobi, with accreditation to Uganda and Ethiopia. Relations with Ethiopia from that time were dealt with by the High Commission in Kenya until 1984 when an embassy was opened in Addis Ababa, with representation to the Organisation of African Unity.[2] This embassy was closed a few years later in 1987 due to budget cuts however and accreditation returned to the High Commission in Nairobi.[3] On 8 September 2010, Lisa Filipetto was appointed as the first resident Ambassador to Ethiopia since 1987.[4]

Office-holders

Ambassadors resident in Nairobi

Name Start of term End of term References
Walter Crocker September 1965 October 1967 [5]
Robert Hamilton November 1967 December 1970 [6]
K. H. Rogers December 1970 May 1974 [7]
Walter Handmer May 1974 November 1977 [8]
Hugh Dunn November 1977 December 1979 [9]
John Lavett January 1980 December 1981
Geoffrey White February 1982 11 December 1984 [10]

Ambassadors resident in Addis Ababa

Name Start of term End of term References
Les Luck (Chargé d'Affaires) 11 December 1984 May 1985 [11]
Jonathan Sheppard May 1985 1987 [12]

Ambassadors resident in Nairobi

Name Start of term End of term References
Douglas Campbell 1987 September 1989 [13]
David Goss September 1989 January 1993 [14]
Lawry Herron January 1993 December 1995 [15]
John Trotter January 1996 January 1998 [16]
Philip Green January 1998 January 2001 [17]
Paul Comfort January 2001 August 2004 [18]
George Atkin August 2004 May 2007 [19]
Lisa Filipetto May 2007 8 September 2010 [20]

Ambassadors resident in Addis Ababa

Name Start of term End of term References
Lisa Filipetto 8 September 2010 30 September 2014 [21]
Mark Sawers 30 September 2014 present [22]

See also

References

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