List of High Commissioners of Australia to Pakistan

High Commissioner to Pakistan
Incumbent Geoffrey Shaw since 2019 (2019)
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Islamabad
Inaugural holder	John Oldham
Formation	1949

The Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan is the Australian Government’s foremost diplomatic representative in Pakistan.

The High Commission was first established in Karachi in 1948, with Australia's first High Commissioner to Pakistan appointed in 1949.^[1] When the Pakistani Government moved its capital from Karachi to Islamabad in 1966, the Australian High Commission also moved.^[2]

Between 1972 and 1989 when Pakistan was not a part of the British Commonwealth, the Australian Government head of mission was called the Australian Ambassador to Pakistan.

List of heads of mission[]

High Commissioners to Pakistan[]

• John Oldham (1949–1952)^[3][4]
• Leslie Beavis (1952–1954)^[5]
• Walter Cawthorn (1954–1958)^[6]
• Roden Cutler (1958–1961)
• Charles Kevin (1961–1962)^[7]
• David McNicol (1962–1966)^[8]
• Bill Cutts (1966–1969)^[9]
• Lew Border (1969–1971)^[10]
• Francis Hamilton Stuart (1972)^[11]

Ambassadors to Pakistan[]

• Francis Hamilton Stuart (1972–1973)^[12]
• Arthur Morris (1974–1976)^[13]
• John Petherbridge (1977–1980)
• Walter Handmer (1981–1984)
• I.G. Bowden (1985–1987)
• Geoffrey Price (1988–1989)

High Commissioners to Pakistan[]

• Geoffrey Price (1989–1990)^[14]
• Ted Pocock (1991–1992)
• P.M. Knight (1993–1996)
• Geoffrey Allen (1996–2000)^[15]
• Howard Brown (2000–2004)^[16]
• Zorica McCarthy (2004–2009)^[17]
• Tim George (2009–2012)^[18]
• Peter Heyward (2012–2015)^[19]
• Margaret Adamson (2015–2019)^[20]
• Dr Geoffrey Shaw (2019+)^[21]

References[]