List of ambassadors of Australia to Venezuela

The Ambassador of Australia to Venezuela 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 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The ambassador resides in Santiago, Chile. The current ambassador, since February 2020, is Todd Mercer.

Ambassador of Australia to Venezuela
Incumbent Todd Mercer (resident in Santiago) since February 2020 (2020-02)
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Style	His Excellency
Reports to	Minister for Foreign Affairs
Residence	Santiago, Chile
Nominator	Prime Minister of Australia
Appointer	Governor General of Australia
Inaugural holder	Frederick Homer (resident in Brasília)
Formation	1973

The Australian Government established an embassy in Caracas in 1979 and appointed its first resident ambassador, A. D. Brown. Previously, responsibility for Australian diplomatic representation in Venezuela was held in Brazil (1973–1974) and then Peru (1974–1979).^[1] The Australian Embassy in Caracas was closed in 2002.^[2][3]

List of ambassadors

Ordinal	Officeholder	Residency	Term start date	Term end date	Time in office	Notes
1	Frederick Homer	Brasília, Brazil	1973 (1973)	1974 (1974)	0–1 years
2	Allan Loomes	Lima, Peru	1974 (1974)	1978 (1978)	3–4 years
3	Alan Fogg		1979 (1979)	1979 (1979)	0 years
4	Alan Brown	Caracas, Venezuela	1979 (1979)	1980 (1980)	0–1 years
5	Peter Barbour		1981 (1981)	1984 (1984)	2–3 years	[4]
6	Richard Starr		1985 (1985)	1986 (1986)	0–1 years	[5]
7	Anthony Dingle		1987 (1987)	1991 (1991)	3–4 years	[6]
8	Dominique De Stoop		1991 (1991)	1996 (1996)	4–5 years
9	Roger Frankel		1996 (1996)	2000 (2000)	3–4 years	[7]
10	John Woods		2000 (2000)	2002 (2002)	1–2 years	[8]
11	Virginia Greville	Santiago, Chile	2009 (2009)	2012 (2012)	2–3 years	[9][10]
12	Tim Kane		2012 (2012)	2016 (2016)	3–4 years	[11]
13	Robert Fergusson		January 2017 (2017-01)	2020 (2020)	2–3 years	[12]
14	Todd Mercer		February 2020 (2020-02)	incumbent	5 years, 5 months	[13]