Permanent Representative of Australia to the International Civil Aviation Organisation

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Permanent Representative of Australia to the International Civil Aviation Organisation
Coat of Arms of Australia.svg
Incumbent
Kerryn Macaulay
since November 2010
Style Her Excellency
Nominator Prime Minister of Australia
Appointer Governor General of Australia
Inaugural holder Arthur Rowland McComb
Formation 6 June 1945
Website Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development - International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

The Permanent Representative of Australia to the International Civil Aviation Organisation is an officer of the Australian Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development and the head of the delegation of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in Montreal, Canada. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and is but one of Australia's representatives to the United Nations and its other constituent agencies. The Australian nominee to the Air Navigation Commission, a body that works towards the uniformity in regulations, standards and procedures which will facilitate and improve air navigation to international standards, acts as the deputy to the Permanent Representative.

The Permanent Delegate is currently Kerryn Macaulay (since November 2010), a former Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.[1] Australia has been a member of ICAO since its establishment, with the permanent mission based in Montreal, now at 999 Robert-Bourassa Boulevard. Australia sent a delegation to the 1944 Chicago Conference, and became a party of the Convention on International Civil Aviation which was resolved at its end on 7 December 1944. Australian first sent a permanent representative to serve on the Council of the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization (PICAO) which began operating on 6 June 1945 and was replaced by ICAO on 7 April 1947.[2]

Permanent Representatives

Name Start of term End of term References
A. R. McComb (Council Member) 1945 1947 [3]
Dr Bill Bradfield 1947 1952 [3]
Jim Stone 1952 1956 [3]
David Medley 1958 1962 [3]
Jim Stone 1965 1968 [3]
Dr Bill Bradfield 1968 1972 [3]
Byron Lewis 1972 1975 [3]
Reg Gross 1975 1981 [3]
George Birch 1981 1984 [3]
Jack Sansom 1984 1988 [3]
Bruce Weedon
Jim Webber
Simon Clegg 2003 2008 [4]
Peter Evans 2008 2010 [5]
Kerryn Macaulay November 2010 present [1]

See also

References

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