Mr John McCarthy AO
High Commissioner to India
Biography
Born in Washington D.C. in 1942, Mr McCarthy was educated at Cambridge University where he received a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws degree. He is a Barrister-at-law and practised in London from 1965 to 1966. He worked with the New York Law Firm of Shearman and Sterling from 1966 to 1967 and joined the then Department of External Affairs in 1968.
Mr McCarthy has served as Australia's Ambassador to Japan (2001-2004); Indonesia (1997-2000); the United States (1995-97); Thailand (1992-94); Mexico (1985-87); and Vietnam (1981-83). He has also served in Damascus, Baghdad and Vientiane as well as having had two earlier postings in Washington.
From 1994 to 1995 Mr McCarthy was Deputy Secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Mr McCarthy has two daughters.