List of ambassadors of Australia to Lebanon

The Ambassador of Australia to Lebanon is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Embassy of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Republic of Lebanon. The Ambassador resides in Beirut.^[2] The current ambassador, since April 2022, is Andrew Barnes,

Ambassador of Australia to Lebanon
Incumbent Andrew Barnes since 13 April 2022 (2022-04-13)
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Style	His Excellency
Reports to	Minister for Foreign Affairs
Residence	Beirut
Nominator	Prime Minister of Australia
Appointer	Governor General of Australia
Inaugural holder	W. D. Forsyth[1]
Formation	1967

List of heads of mission

Ordinal	Officeholder	Title	Other offices	Residency	Term start date	Term end date	Time in office	Notes
(n/a)	D. J. Kingsmill	Chargé d'affaires		Beirut, Lebanon	1967 (1967)	1967 (1967)	0 years
1	Bill Forsyth	Ambassador of Australia to Lebanon			1967 (1967)	1970 (1970)	2–3 years	[1][3]
2	Neil Truscott				1970 (1970)	1973 (1973)	2–3 years	[4]
3	Pierre Hutton		A		1973 (1973)	1975 (1975)	1–2 years
4	Peter Curtis		A		1975 (1975)	1976 (1976)	0–1 years	[5]
(n/a)	J. M. C. Watson	Chargé d'affaires		Damascus, Syria	1977 (1977)	1978 (1978)	0–1 years
(n/a)	D. J. Richardson				1978 (1978)	1980 (1980)	1–2 years
(2)	Neil Truscott	Ambassador of Australia to Lebanon	A		1978 (1978)	1983 (1983)	4–5 years	[6]
5	D. G. Wilson		A		1983 (1983)	1984 (1984)	0–1 years
6	Ross Burns				1984 (1984)	1987 (1987)	2–3 years	[7]
7	Ray Spurr				1987 (1987)	1989 (1989)	0–1 years
(n/a)	J. E. Rawson	Chargé d'affaires			1988 (1988)	1990 (1990)	1–2 years
8	Victoria Owen	Ambassador of Australia to Lebanon			1990 (1990)	1992 (1992)	1–2 years
9	Paul Robilliard				1992 (1992)	1995 (1995)	3–4 years
				Beirut, Lebanon	1995 (1995)	1996 (1996)
10	Ian Parmeter				1996 (1996)	1999 (1999)	2–3 years	[8]
11	John Fennessy				1999 (1999)	12002 (12002)	2–3 years	[9]
12	Stephanie Shwabsky				2002 (2002)	2006 (2006)	3–4 years	[10]
13	Lyndall Sachs				2006 (2006)	2009 (2009)	2–3 years	[11]
14	Jean Dunn				2009 (2009)	2010 (2010)	0–1 years	[12]
15	Lex Bartlem				2010 (2010)	2014 (2014)	3–4 years	[13][14]
16	Glenn Miles				2014 (2014)	2018 (2018)	3–4 years	[15]
17	Rebekah Grindlay				October 2018 (2018-10)	2022 (2022)	1–2 years	[16]
18	Andrew Barnes				13 April 2022 (2022-04-13)	incumbent	3 years, 176 days	[17][18]

Notes

^A Also served concurrently as non-resident Ambassador of Australia to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1979 to 1984.