Ms Virginia Greville
Ambassador to Chile
Ms Greville is a senior officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has been Australia's Ambassador to Chile since June 2009. Prior to this Ms Greville was Australia’s Chief Negotiator on the Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement throughout the negotiations. She was concurrently Assistant Secretary, Market Development, Business Liaison and Regional Trade Policy Branch and Deputy Chief Negotiator on Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the Gulf States in 2007-08. Previously, Ms Greville has also been Lead Agriculture Negotiator for the China Free Trade Agreement (2005-07) and Assistant Secretary of the Trade Commitments Branch (2004-05), where she was responsible for implementation of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement.
Overseas, Ms Greville served as Minister Counsellor, Agriculture at the Australian Embassy, Washington DC from 2000 until 2003. She returned to Australia as Assistant Secretary of the Trade Commitments Branch (2004-05), where she was responsible for implementation of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement.
Ms Greville holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and a Graduate Diploma in Public Law from the Australian National University. Ms Greville speaks Spanish and has three children.