John McCarthy (ambassador)

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John McCarthy (b. 1942) has served as Australia's Ambassador to Vietnam (1981-83), Ambassador to Mexico (1985-87), Ambassador to Thailand (1992-94), Ambassador to The United States from (1995-97), Ambassador to Indonesia (1997-2001) and Ambassador to Japan (27 July 2001-2004). He has also served in Damascus, Baghdad and Vientiane. Mr McCarthy took up the appointment of Ambassador to India in 2004.

From 1994-95, Mr McCarthy was Deputy Secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra.

Born in Washington, D.C., 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 & Sterling from 1966 to 1967 and joined the then-Australian Foreign Service in 1968. Mr McCarthy has two daughters.

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• Mr John McCarthy AO Biography, Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Accessed 2007-06-15.