Ms Duncan is a senior career diplomat who has worked across a range of Australian government foreign policy priorities over more than 20 years with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has held senior diplomatic posts in Indonesia, New Zealand and Solomon Islands. In Australia, she has worked across the department’s international security, consular and bilateral areas, and as head of the Diplomatic Academy. In 2015, she received a Young Public Sector Leader Award from the Institute of Public Administration of Australia. Ms Duncan speaks Indonesian and French.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Australia New Zealand School of Government – Executive Master of Public Administration – 2014
Australian National University – Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Arts – 2001
EXPERIENCE
ASSISTANT SECRETARY, CONSULAR COMMUNICATIONS AND POLICY, DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE 2022 – 2023
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DIPLOMATIC ACADEMY OF AUSTRALIA 2021 – 2022
MINISTER-COUNSELLOR, ECONOMIC, INVESTMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE, AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY JAKARTA, INDONESIA 2018 – 2021
COUNSELLOR ECONOMIC THEN DEPUTY HIGH COMMISSIONER, AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND 2015 – 2018
DIRECTOR, PACIFIC STRATEGY, DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE 2014 – 2015
DIRECTOR, SOLOMON ISLANDS, DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE 2011 – 2013
DEPUTY AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER TO SOLOMON ISLANDS 2008 – 2011
EXECUTIVE OFFICER, COUNTER TERRORISM BRANCH, DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE 2006 – 2008
THIRD SECRETARY, POLITICAL AND LEGAL, AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY JAKARTA, INDONESIA 2003 – 2006
JOINED DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE 2002