Jennifer Polyxeni Bloomfield

Jenny Polyxeni Bloomfield is the Australian Representative to Taiwan since February 1, 2021,^[1] succeeding Gary Cowan.^[2][3][4] and was the Australian Ambassador to Greece^[4] from 2011 until 2014 with non-resident accreditation to Albania and Bulgaria.^[5] She is both the first woman and the first person of Greek descent to hold that position.

Bloomfield in 2011

Bloomfield earned a Master of Arts in Foreign Affairs and Trade from Monash University, a Bachelor of Letters in Political Science and French and a Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Arts in Modern Greek from the University of Melbourne.^[5][3]

The mother of 4 children, Bloomfield speaks 8 languages^[which?]including Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien. During her tenure in Taiwan, she is known as Lu zhen-yi (露珍怡), the Chinese name she chooses for herself with the meaning of "precious dew", and the last character of her given name is a combination of Xin(忄) and Tai (台), standing for "heart" and "Taiwan" respectively.^[6]