Ambassador of Australia to Algeria | |
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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | |
Style | His Excellency |
Reports to | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
Residence | Paris, France |
Nominator | Prime Minister of Australia |
Appointer | Governor General of Australia |
Inaugural holder | Bruce Woodberry (as Chargé d'affaires ) |
Formation | 1975 |
The ambassador of Australia to Algeria 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 People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.[1] Currently the Australian ambassador to France is responsible for representing Australian interests in Algeria, resident in Paris, France. The current non-resident ambassador, since November 2020, is Gillian Bird PSM.
Ordinal | Officeholder | Title | Residency | Term start date | Term end date | Time in office | Notes |
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– | Bruce Woodberry | Chargé d'affaires | Algiers, Algeria | 1975 | 1976 | 0–1 years | |
1 | John Anthony Piper | Ambassador of Australia to Algeria | 1976 | 1979 | 2–3 years | [2] | |
2 | John Brook | 1979 | 1980 | 0–1 years | |||
3 | Michael McKeown | 1980 | 1984 | 3–4 years | [3] | ||
4 | C.G. O'Hanlon | 1984 | 1986 | 1–2 years | |||
5 | J. N. Skinner | 1987 | 1989 | 1–2 years | |||
6 | M. P. F. Smith | 1989 | 1991 | 1–2 years | |||
7 | Clive Jones | Paris, France | 1991 | 1993 | 1–2 years | ||
8 | Alan Brown | 1993 | 1996 | 2–3 years | |||
9 | John Spender KC | 1996 | 1998 | 1–2 years | |||
10 | Victoria Owen PSM | Cairo, Egypt | 1998 | 2002 | 3–4 years | [4][5] | |
11 | Stephen Brady AO, CVO | Ambassador of Australia to Algeria | Paris, France | 28 September 2014 | 16 October 2017 | 3 years, 18 days | [6][7] |
12 | Brendan Berne | 21 July 2017 | October 2020 | 3 years, 2 months | [8][9] | ||
13 | Gillian Bird PSM | 5 November 2020 | incumbent | 3 years, 261 days | [10][11] |
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