Margaret Eileen Twomey AM (born 21 February 1963) is Amb*ador of Australia to Italy (since July 2020). She is former High Commissioner of Australia to Fiji, from November 2014 to November 2017. Twomey has an honours degree in Arts (Russian and French) from the University of Melbourne. Her grandfather Patrick Joseph Twomey started the PJ Twomey Hospital for Lepers in Fiji.

Former appointments

• High Commissioner to Fiji (2014–2017)
• Head of Policy Planning, DFAT (2013–2014)
• Amb*ador to Russia and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Moldova, Belarus (2008–2012), and Ukraine (2008–2009).
• Australia’s Amb*ador to East Timor (2004–08)
• Deputy High Commissioner in Suva (2000–02)
• First Secretary and Counsellor in London (1995–2000)
• Third, later Second Secretary in Belgrade (1990–92)

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