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Jenny Bloomfield was a career officer with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) for 29 years, and was most recently Australia’s Representative at the Australian Office in Taiwan. Her memoir, Australian Ambassador, will be published in August. jennybloomfield.com.au
From 2011-14, Jenny was Australia’s Ambassador to Greece, with non-resident accreditation to Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. She also served as Counsellor and Head of the Political/Strategic Section, and concurrently Liaison Officer for the Australian Office of National Assessments, at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan (2006-09); accompanied her husband James Bloomfield on posting at the Australian Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2003-06); and was Third, later Second Secretary (Political) at the Australian Embassy in Tehran, Iran (1997-99).
Jenny was DFAT Victoria State Director in Melbourne from 2016-19, leading DFAT’s domestic diplomacy and business engagement in Australia’s second largest state. In Canberra, Jenny’s positions included Assistant Secretary of DFAT’s Middle East Branch (2010-11), Assistant Secretary, Human Rights and Gender Equality Branch (2014), and Acting First Assistant Secretary and Head, Office for Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (2015).
Jenny holds a Master of Arts (Foreign Affairs and Trade) from Monash University and Bachelor of Laws (Honours), Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Letters from the University of Melbourne. Jenny is a first-generation Greek migrant to Australia and was the first female and the first Greek-born Australian Ambassador to Greece. Jenny was awarded the Hellenic Republic’s Star of Merit and Honour for outstanding contribution to Australia-Greece relations and the Friendship Medal of Diplomacy for her contributions to Australia-Taiwan relations. Jenny speaks fluent Greek, as well as Mandarin, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian and Farsi.
