List of Australian Ambassadors to Syria

Australian Ambassador to Syria
Incumbent Neil Hawkins since 2015
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Cairo, Egypt
Inaugural holder	P.N. Hutton (resident in Beirut)

The Australian Ambassador to Syria is the Australian Government’s foremost diplomatic representative in Syria. After the Australian Government closed its post in Damascus in 1999, the Australian Ambassador to Egypt was named responsible for representing Australian interests in Syria.

List of heads of mission

Ambassadors resident in Beirut, Lebanon

• Pierre Hutton (1973–1975)
• Peter Curtis (1975–1976)

Ambassador resident in Baghdad, Iraq

• John Starey (Chargé d'affaires 1976–1977)

Resident Ambassadors

• J.P. McCarthy (1977–1978)
• H.N. Truscott (1978–1981)
• D.G. Wilson (1981–1984)
• R.A. Burns (1984–1987)
• R.J. Spurr (1987–1988)
• J.E. Rawson (Chargé d'affaires 1988–1990)
• Victoria Owen (1990–1992)
• Paul Robilliard (1992–1996)
• Jim Dollimore (1996–1998)
• Janet Gardiner (1998–1999)

Ambassadors resident in Cairo, Egypt

• Victoria Owen (1999–2002)
• Robert Newton (2002–2005)
• Bob Bowker (2005–2008)
• Stephanie Schwabsky (2008–2012)
• Ralph King (2012–2015)
• Neil Hawkins (2015–)