Mr Kevin Magee
Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Biography
Mr Magee is a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and was most recently Director of the China Political and External Section. Overseas, Mr Magee has served as Consul-General in Guangzhou (2003-06), Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow (2001-03), First Secretary in Singapore (1994-97) and Third Secretary in Beijing (1990-92). He was also a United Nations Disarmament Fellow based in Geneva and New York and joined the 47th Australian Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in October 1992.
In Canberra, Mr Magee has also held the positions of Director, China Economic and Trade Section (2001), and Director, China Bilateral Relations Section (2000).
Mr Magee worked with the Victorian State Government in a senior advisory capacity from 1997 to 1999.
Educated at Monash University, Mr Magee holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours and a Bachelor of Laws degree. Mr Magee speaks Chinese, French and some Russian and German. He is married with two children.