Irish diplomats, including Ambassadors and Heads of Mission, are career civil servants employed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; a number of Ambassadors have served in other Government Departments prior to transferring to my Department. The information on the location of each Ambassador is set out in the table below:
MISSION
|
Grade
|
Posted as Head of Mission since
|
Ambassador Abu Dhabi
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Abuja
|
Senior Development Specialist
|
2014
|
Ambassador Addis Ababa
|
Counsellor
|
2012
|
Ambassador Ankara
|
Counsellor
|
2014
|
Ambassador Athens
|
Counsellor
|
2014
|
Ambassador Bangkok
|
Deputy Secretary
|
2014
|
Ambassador Beijing
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Berlin
|
Second Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Berne
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador Bratislava
|
First Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Brasilia
|
Principal Officer
|
2014
|
Ambassador Brussels; Embassy (including PfP)
|
Counsellor
|
2012
|
Ambassador Brussels; Permanent Representative to the EU
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Brussels; Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2012
|
Ambassador Brussels; Permanent Representative to the EU – Political Security Committee
|
Counsellor
|
2013
|
Ambassador Budapest
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador Bucharest
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador Buenos Aires
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2014
|
Ambassador Cairo
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador Canberra
|
Counsellor
|
2012
|
Ambassador Copenhagen
|
Counsellor
|
2014
|
Ambassador
Dar-es-Salaam
|
Principal Development Specialist
|
2012
|
Ambassador Edinburgh
|
First Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Freetown
|
Development Specialist
|
2011
|
Ambassador Geneva; Permanent representative to the UN
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Hanoi
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador Helsinki
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2015
|
Ambassador Holy See
|
First Secretary
|
2014
|
Ambassador Jakarta
|
Counsellor
|
2014
|
Ambassador Kampala
|
Senior Development Specialist
|
2014
|
Ambassador Kuala Lumpur
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador Lilongwe
|
Counsellor
|
2014
|
Ambassador Lisbon
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador Ljubljana
|
First Secretary
|
2015
|
Ambassador London
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Lusaka
|
Senior Development Specialist
|
2015
|
Ambassador Luxembourg
|
Assistant Principal
|
2014
|
Ambassador Madrid
|
Former Secretary General
|
2014
|
Ambassador Maputo
|
Principal Development Specialist
|
2014
|
Ambassador Mexico
|
Counsellor
|
2013
|
Ambassador Moscow
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador Nairobi
|
Principal Development Specialist
|
2014
|
Ambassador New Delhi
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador New York
Permanent Mission to the UN
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Nicosia
|
First Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Oslo
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador Ottawa
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2010
|
Ambassador Paris
|
Second Secretary General
|
2014
|
Ambassador Paris; Permanent Representative to the OECD and UNESCO
|
Counsellor
|
2012
|
Ambassador Prague
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador Pretoria
|
Counsellor
|
2014
|
Ambassador Ramallah
|
Counsellor
|
2014
|
Ambassador Riga
|
First Secretary
|
2015
|
Ambassador Riyadh
|
Principal Officer
|
2014
|
Ambassador Rome
|
Deputy Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Seoul
|
Counsellor
|
2013
|
Ambassador Singapore
|
Counsellor
|
2014
|
Ambassador Sofia
|
currently vacant
|
|
Ambassador Stockholm
|
Counsellor
|
2014
|
Ambassador Strasbourg; Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2011
|
Ambassador Tallinn
|
Assistant Principal
|
2010
|
Ambassador Tel Aviv
|
Counsellor
|
2015
|
Ambassador The Hague
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2014
|
Ambassador Tokyo
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2014
|
Ambassador Valetta
|
First Secretary
|
2014
|
Ambassador Vienna; bilateral Embassy and Permanent Representative to the International Organisations
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2014
|
Ambassador Vienna; Permanent Representative to the OSCE
|
Assistant Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Vilnius
|
First Secretary
|
2014
|
Ambassador Warsaw
|
Counsellor
|
2014
|
Ambassador Washington
|
Deputy Secretary
|
2013
|
Ambassador Zagreb
|
First Secretary
|
2014
|