Mr Jeremy Newman
Ambassador to Greece
Biography
Mr Newman is a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and was most recently First Assistant Secretary, Europe Division, a position he held since 2006. Mr Newman served as Australia’s Ambassador to Iran from 2001 to 2005. He has also served in Washington (1982-85), Dublin (1979) and Belgrade (1977-79).
In Canberra Mr Newman has held a range of positions including First Assistant Secretary, Americas and Europe Division (2005-06) and Assistant Secretary, Strategic Policy and Intelligence Branch (1998-2001).
Mr Newman was Assistant Secretary, Defence, Intelligence and Security and Chair of the Commonwealth Counter Disaster Task Force with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1994 to 1998 and also served as Senior Analyst and later head of the Current Intelligence and Intelligence Community Branch of the Office of National Assessments (1986-94).
Mr Newman was born in Melbourne and educated in Singapore, Sri Lanka and Britain where he graduated from the University of Cambridge with first class honours in History.