Scott Ryan
High Commissioner for Australia
Scott Ryan comes to diplomacy from politics. He was first elected to the Senate in the 2007 federal election and was re-elected in 2013 and 2016. He served as a parliamentary secretary to the minister for education, and then as parliamentary secretary to the minister for education and training. He also served as minister for vocational education and skills following a cabinet re-arrangement. He was elected president of the Senate in 2017 and resigned his ministerial posts to take up the position.
Prior to his involvement in politics, he worked as a speechwriter in the office of the Victorian opposition leader. He also worked in corporate affairs for GlaxosmithKline and was a research fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs between 2007 and 2008. He is married and they have two sons.
Ronen Hoffman
Ambassador of Israel
Ambassador Hoffman is an academic and former member of the Knesset. For 20 years, he taught at the Reichman University in Herzliya on topics ranging from diplomacy and foreign policy to conflict management.
From 2013 to 2015, he served as a member of the defence and foreign affairs committee, chairman of the subcommittee on foreign policy and public diplomacy and chairman of the Israel-Canada Interparliamentary Friendship Association.
From 2001 to 2002, he advised the minister of defence on international and political affairs. He was a member of the lsraeli delegation for peace negotiations with Syria in 2000 and actively participated in the negotiations, co-ordinated pre-negotiation staff work and formulated policy papers and reports on the peace talks.
Ambassador Hoffman has three children and his partner is Michal Arad.
Khalid bin Rashid S.H. Al Mansouri
Ambassador-designate of Qatar
Ambassador Al Mansouri joined the foreign ministry in 1987 and joined the consular department later that year. He moved over to the department responsible for international organizations and conferences between 1991 and 1993 before becoming second secretary at the embassy in Washington. He held that position from 1993 to 1998, at which point he returned to the ministry’s information and research department until 2002.
Al Mansouri was director of European and American Affairs from 2002 to 2005 and was named ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2014. He returned to headquarters as director of the department of European affairs before being named ambassador to France between 2016 and 2018. In 2019, he was named an adviser to the minister of foreign affairs for international development.
He was awarded the Royal Victorian Knight Order by Queen Elizabeth II and the National Order of Merit by the president of France.
Alfredo Martínez Serrano
Ambassador of Spain
Ambassador Martínez Serrano has a law degree and a master’s in European Union law from the European Institute of the Free University of Brussels
A career diplomat, he has served as chief adviser to the cabinet of the foreign minister and has completed postings as deputy chief of mission in Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria, El Salvador and Egypt. Between 2007 and 2012, he was deputy chief of protocol at the royal household of Spain, responsible for the international agenda and public activities of the crown prince and princess, after which he became chief of protocol.
Since 2016, he has been managing the King of Spain’s agenda and engaging in intense reform of the royal household.
The ambassador is married and has three children.
Harsha Kumara Navaratne Weraduwa
High Commissioner for Sri Lanka
High Commissioner Weraduwa has worked with non-profit organizations over his long career. From 1978 to 1991, he worked for the Lanka Jathika Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, where he trained stakeholders and co-ordinated work with the organization’s partners, such as Oxfam, UNICEF and Care.
Starting in 1991, he spent two years as an adviser to the Janasaviya National Poverty Alleviation Program and then founded the Sevalanka Foundation, a national organization to support community-based groups.
He was an executive member of the advisory board for the United Nations Peace University and served five years as an executive member of the Peace Prize Committee for the Niwano Peace Foundation in Japan. From 2020 to 2021, he was the commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka.
The high commissioner is married.
David L. Cohen
Ambassador of the United States
Before his appointment as ambassador to Canada, Ambassador Cohen served as senior adviser to the CEO at Comcast Corporation. He was previously senior executive vice-president at Comcast, where his portfolio included corporate communications, legal affairs, government and regulatory affairs, public affairs, corporate administration, corporate real estate and security and community impact. He also served as the company’s first chief diversity officer.
Before joining Comcast in 2002, he was a partner and chairman at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, one of the 100 largest law firms in the country. From January 1992 to April 1997, Cohen served as chief of staff to the mayor of Philadelphia.
He has served on many non-profit boards. A native of New York, he has a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Non-heads of mission
Australia
Ellie Mae Aurisch
Assistant defence adviser
Dylan James Hubbard
First secretary
Bolivia
Andrea Valentina Pena Castellon
First secretary
Brazil
Waleska Aragao Lelis
Attaché and vice-consul
Burkina Faso
Taba Doye
Second counsellor
Chile
Claudia Andrea Aravena Neira
First secretary
China
Cong Shen
First secretary
Jun Zhang
First secretary
Yang Wang
Second secretary
Xiaolong Chen
Third secretary
Li Jiang
Attaché
Yingzi Jia
Second secretary
Yan Wang
Minister-Counsellor
Chunqing Zhang
Attaché
Yang Zhou
Attaché
Côte d’Ivoire
Mangny Justine Tano Nee Coffi
Counsellor
Mariatou Doussou Iahya Toure Nee Coulibaly
Attaché
Cuba
Jorge Luis Machado Labanino
Attaché
Isaylin Cabanas Vera
Counsellor
Egypt
Faten Abdelmeguid Hassan Elsayed
Attaché
Amr Fawzy Abdelateef Elsharnouby
Assistant defence, military, naval and air attaché
Germany
Sebastian Klaer
First secretary
Jurgen Gerhard Kurzhals
Second secretary
Astrid Maria Jakobs De Padua
Minister-counsellor
Klaus Ruediger Schindel
Counsellor
Ghana
Maxwell Appiah-Kubi
Defence Attaché
Guyana
Lucresha Alecia Bryan-French
First secretary
Cindy Maria Sauers
Counsellor and acting high commissioner
India
Sone Lal Mallik
Second secretary
Bikram Pal Singh Bhatty
First secretary
Iraq
Ahmed Hussein Kareem Kareem
First secretary
Jamaica
Dale Elliott Stanley Jones
Counsellor
Japan
Tokuro Furuya
Minister
Hiromi Masaki
Attaché
Takuma Taniguchi
Attaché
Akiko Satoh
First secretary
Shingo Amano
Second Secretary
Korea, Republic
Jae Kyung Park
Minister
Kosovo
Korab Mushkolaj
Counsellor
Kuwait
Naser A. Sh. A. B. Aladwani
Attaché
Libya
Abdalla S. A. Bgar
Minister-counsellor
Guoma A. G. Alswidi
Assistant attaché
Rashed A. M. Sharkasi
Counsellor
Mexico
Jose Maria Martinez Gonzalez
Attaché
New Zealand
Kirsty Pelenur
First secretary
Nigeria
Bridget Oluremi Yinka-Adewale
Attaché
Esther Odera Omene
First secretary
David Toyin Apinran
Second secretary
Paraguay
Pablo Esteban Ramon Bedoya Gonzalez
Minister and chargé d’affaires
Philippines
Leo Marco Vidal
Third secretary and vice-consul
Romania
Viorica Cate
Counsellor
Russia
Maria Antonova
Second secretary
Artem Kalabukhov
First secretary
Igor Prokopiev
First secretary
Rwanda
Eustache Rutabuzwa
Defence attaché
Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Abdullah A. Aljebrin
Attaché
Sultan Ali S. Alaql
Attaché
Faisal Shudayyid D. Alotaibi
Attaché
Yasser Hamed A. Sindi
First secretary
Riyad Abdallah M. Naseef
First secretary
Ahmed Mohammed A. Banunnah
Attaché
Faisal Abdulrahman M. Alotaibi
Attaché
Senegal
Papa Alioune Badara Biteye
First counsellor
Awa Cheikh Seck
Second secretary
Moustapha Sow
Minister-counsellor
Spain
Maria Del Pilar Alvarez Julvez
Attaché
Sri Lanka
Anzul Banu Jhan
Deputy high commissioner
Tanzania
Charles Tumaini Faini
Minister-Counsellor
Thailand
Pachara Lochindaratana Janes
Counsellor
Turkey
Naim Cengiz
Counsellor
United Kingdom
Stephen Howard Bridges
Second secretary
Amberley Rose Coomber
Third secretary
Ian Attwood
First secretary
United States of America
Andrew William Klopfer
Assistant attaché
Erik Calmer Thor Nelson
Attaché
Vietnam
Minh Dao Nguyen
First secretary