Biographical Details - Peter Grey
Deputy Secretary - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Mr Grey has held a range of senior positions with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He was appointed Deputy Secretary in 1994.
Currently Mr Grey has oversight of the Office of Trade Negotiations, bilateral political and economic relations with North Asia, the Economic Analytical Unit, and the various taskforces negotiating free trade agreements with Asian countries.
Mr Grey is also Chief Negotiator for the Japan Free Trade Agreement, and represents the department on the Australia China Council, the Australia Japan Foundation and the Australia Korea Foundation. He chairs the department’s Audit and Risk Committee.
From 1998 to 2001 Mr Grey was Australian Ambassador to Japan; and from 2003 to 2006 was Ambassador in Brussels with responsibility for the European Union, NATO and Belgium/Luxembourg.
Mr Grey has also been Australia’s lead negotiator on WTO matters (1994 to1998 and 2001 to 2003) and Australia’s senior APEC official and first Ambassador for APEC (1994 to 1998), positions held concurrently with Deputy Secretary.
Other senior appointments with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have included Assistant Secretary, Multilateral Trade Division and Chief Negotiator for Trade in Services; Head (First Assistant Secretary) of the Asia Division; and Head (First Assistant Secretary) of the Trade Negotiations Division.
Mr Grey earlier served in Washington and Tokyo, and had a short-term posting to Geneva during the Uruguay Round negotiations. From 1982 to 1985 Mr Grey was Assistant Secretary in the Department of Primary Industry, with responsibility for reform of the dairy industry, and a member of the Board of the Australian Dairy Corporation.
Mr Grey is married with two children. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford. He was awarded an Australian Government scholarship to undertake his MBA in the United States.