New heads of mission
Louise Hand
High Commissioner for Australia
Ms Hand is a senior career diplomat with foreign affairs. Prior to her appointment to Canada, she was ambassador for climate change from 2009 until 2011. Previously, she served overseas as minister and deputy head of mission in Indonesia (2005 to 2009), ambassador to Cambodia (2000 to 2003), counsellor at the Australian permanent mission on disarmament in Geneva (1995 to 1998), third and later second secretary in Austria (1986 to 1989).
In Canberra, Ms Hand has been assistant secretary, arms control branch (1999 to 2000), director, ministerial and executive liaison section (1999), director, business affairs unit (1993 to 1994) and executive assistant to the secretary (1992 to 1993).
She holds a bachelor of arts, master’s qualifying degree from the University of Queensland and an MBA from Deakin University. She is married and has two daughters. In January 2009, she was awarded a public service medal for her work in Indonesia.
Non-heads of mission
Argentina
Dario Javier Helbert
Third secretary
Australia
Russell John Page
Defence adviser
Chile
Elena Del Carmen
Bornand Perez
First secretary
Ramiro Navajas Santini
Defence attaché
China
Ji Yang
First secretary
Ping Chen
Third secretary
Yiqun He
Minister-counsellor
Cuba
Yunieski Morales Medina
Attaché
Dominican Republic
Briunny Garabito Segura
Minister-counsellor
France
Alexandre Aaron Vulic
Minister-counsellor
Iceland
Kristin Eva Jansson Sigurdardottir
Second secretary and chargé d’affaires, A.I.
Israel
Eden Avraham Attias
Minister-counsellor
Japan
Koichi Nakamoto
Attaché
Chisa Takiguchi
Second secretary
Kazakhstan
Artem Kuzmin
Third secretary
Daniyar Seidaliyev
Counsellor
Libya
Esam O. Ben-Zitun
First secretary
Abdelaziz A. Almansouri
Counsellor
Madagascar
Philippe Velo
Counsellor
New Zealand
Michael Kelvin Pannett
Counsellor
Niger
Yacouba Mahamane
Chargé d’affaires
Peru Rodriguez
Roberto Rafael Max Arnillas
Minister and deputy head of mission
Philippines
Rhodora Manlapaz
Attaché
Neil Frank Ferrer
Minister and consul general
Miguel Luis Moreno
Attaché
Qatar
Hussain Ali S. Al-Fadhala
Second secretary
Russia
Varvara Dronova
Third secretary
Senegal
Aliou Diouf
First secretary
South Africa
Wida Anscois Cloete
First secretary
Turkey
Ahmet Ozel
Attaché
Ukraine
Natalia Holub
First secretary
United States Of America
Creg Dalton Paulk
Defence Attaché
Alan Leonard Langford
Attaché
David Alan Bradstock
Attaché
Vietnam
Van Huong Le
Attaché
