Ambassador - Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations

Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations

New York

Permanent Mission address: 150 East 42 Street, Level 33, New York, New York 10017 - Telephone: 1 212 351 6600 - Fax: 1 212 351 6610

H.E. Mr Gary Quinlan
Ambassador to the United Nations

Mr Quinlan presented his credentials as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations on 25 June 2009.

From December 2007 until March 2009, Mr Quinlan was the Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Defence, and National Security.

Mr Quinlan joined the then Department of Foreign Affairs in 1973 and has served in several senior positions in the Department in Canberra, including First Assistant Secretary, Consular, Public Diplomacy and Parliamentary Affairs Division (2007) and First Assistant Secretary, Americas and Europe Division (2000-2001). He was Head of the Australian Delegation to the Law of the Sea Preparatory Commission from 1987 until 1988, and has extensive experience in negotiations also on Antarctic matters.

Mr Quinlan's overseas assignments have been as Deputy Head of Mission, Australian Embassy Washington DC (2005-2007); High Commissioner (Ambassador) to Singapore (2001-2005); First Secretary, Australian Mission to the United Nations, New York (1981-1985); Australian Deputy Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, Paris (1979-1981); and Second Secretary in Dublin (1974-1977). He was attached to the Economic Development Institute, World Bank, in Washington DC (1984).

Mr Quinlan also served as Chief of Staff to the Minister for Resources (1988-1990); to the Minister for Industrial Relations (Labour) (1990-1993); to the Minister for Trade (1993-1994), and to the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology (1994-1996).

Mr Quinlan was educated at the University of Newcastle and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours. He also holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (Hon DLitt Newc, 2007).