Deputy Permanent Representative - 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

Andrew Goledzinowski, AM
Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Andrew Goledzinowski is a career diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade presently serving as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative at the Australian Mission to the United Nations in New York. He has served on the personal staff of two Foreign Ministers – as Adviser to Gareth Evans and as Senior Adviser to Alexander Downer.

Mr Goledzinowski has served as Assistant Secretary of the Counter Terrorism Branch and the International Organisations Branch of the Department. He has served at Australian diplomatic posts in Pretoria, Port Vila and Geneva, where he was deputy permanent representative to the UN.

From 2000-2002 Mr Goledzinowski worked as Chief of Staff to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson. From 2003-2004, he was deployed to Iraq where he served as the senior Australian official in the Coalition Provisional Authority, followed by a further nine month secondment to the World Bank as the Bank’s Senior Adviser to the Iraqi Government in Baghdad.

He is a holder of the Order of Australia (AM), the Australian Overseas Service Medal, the Australian Defence Force Medal and the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s Medal for Exceptional Public Service.