Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has announced Jane Lambert as Australia's next High Commissioner to Malta. She is expected to take up her appointment in December, succeeding Anne Quinane, according to Australian media.
Ms Lambert is a career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and served as Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa, Counsellor at the Australian High Commission in Nigeria, and First Secretary at the Australian Embassy to the European Union in Belgium and Luxembourg. She was most recently Director of the Department's Pakistan Section.
Ms Lambert holds a Master of Arts degree in Public Policy from the Australian National University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Flinders University.