
Country |
Name |
Position |
Commenced term |
| Resident representation: 1958-82 and 1985- | |||
| Graeme Waters | High Commissioner | 29 Sep 2004 | |
| Caroline McDonald | High Commissioner | 14 Sep 2001 | |
| Adrian Simcock | High Commissioner | 24 May 1997 | |
| Nick Bridge | High Commissioner | 17 Feb 1993 | |
| Priscilla Williams | High Commissioner | 12 Sep 1989 | |
| Sir Edmund Hillary | High Commissioner | 27 Mar 1985 | |
| Post reopened mid-1985 | |||
| David McDowell | High Commissioner | 19 Apr 1983 | |
| (resident in Wellington) | |||
| NB The post in New Delhi was closed in 1982 | |||
| Barry Brooks | High Commissioner | 7 Aug 1981 | |
| Don Harper | High Commissioner | 4 Apr 1979 | |
| Colin Aikman | High Commissioner | 5 Jun 1975 | |
| Rex Cunninghame | High Commissioner | 7 Mar 1972 | |
| Vacant | 1971 | ||
| Brian Lendrum | High Commissioner | 8 Apr 1968 | |
| J E Farrell | High Commissioner | 1965 | |
| F H T de Malmanche | High Commissioner | 18 Mar 1963 | |
| Sir Guy Powles | High Commissioner | Jul 1960 | |
| Bill Challis | Acting High Commissioner | 6 Dec 1958 | |
| Resident representation since: 1961 (and possibly earlier) | |||
| Phillip Gibson | Ambassador | Jan 2006 | |
| Chris Elder | Ambassador | 2001 | |
| Michael Green | Ambassador | Oct 1997 | |
| Tim Groser | Ambassador | 5 May 1994 | |
| Neil Walter | Ambassador | 10 Jul 1990 | |
| Gordon Parkinson | Ambassador | 23 May 1986 | |
| Michael Powles | Ambassador | 16 Jun 1982 | |
| Richard Nottage | Ambassador | 17 May 1980 | |
| Roger Peren | Ambassador | 27 Nov 1976 | |
| Ray Jermyn | Ambassador | 9 Jun 1973 | |
| Basil Bolt | Ambassador | 18 Dec 1971 | |
| Bill Challis | Ambassador | 20 Apr 1968 | |
| Dr Reuel Lochore | Minister | Apr 1964 | |
| Paul Edmonds | Chargé d’Affaires | Jan 1963 | |
| D M Rae | Chargé d’Affaires | Jan 1963 | |
| D M Rae | Consul-General | 16 May 1961 | |
| Colombo Plan Mission | 1957 | ||
| Resident representation since: 1975 | |||
| Hamish MacMaster | Ambassador | 1 Jan 2005 | |
| Niels Holm | Ambassador | 3 Jan 2002 | |
| Warwick Hawker | Ambassador | 1998 | |
| Daniel Richards | Ambassador | Feb 1995 | |
| John Hayes | Ambassador | 12 May 1993 | |
| Laurie Markes | Ambassador | 25 Jan 1990 | |
| John Wood | Ambassador | 13 Dec 1987 | |
| Richard Woods | Ambassador | 24 Jan 1984 | |
| Don Harper | Ambassador | 22 Apr 1982 | |
| Graeme Ammundsen | Chargé d’Affaires | 16 Jun 1980 | |
| Chris Beeby | Ambassador | 15 May 1978 | |
| Bruce Brown | Ambassador | 19 Apr 1975 | |
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| Resident representation since: 1983 | |||
| John Clarke | Ambassador | 2 Mar 1988 | |
| John Carter | Ambassador | 30 Apr 1985 | |
| Barry Brooks | Ambassador | 20 Mar 1983 | |
| (Prior to 1983 all resident in Rome) | |||
| Jim Weir | Ambassador | 1980 | |
| Hon Eric Halstead | Ambassador | 16 Oct 1976 | |
| Hon Phil Holloway | Ambassador | 6 Nov 1975 | |
| Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt | Ambassador | 2005 | |
| Hon Russell Marshall | Ambassador | 2002 | |
| Rt Hon Paul East | Ambassador | 11 Mar 1999 | |
| Richard Grant | Ambassador | Jun 1997 | |
| John Collinge | Ambassador | 1994 | |
| Hon George Gair | Ambassador | Jul 1991 | |
| Bryce Harland | Ambassador | 1986 | |
| Hon Joe Walding | Ambassador | 15 Oct 1985 | |
| Hon Bill Young | Ambassador | 27 Sep 1982 | |
| Hon Les Gandar | Ambassador | 3 Oct 1979 | |
| Hon Sir Douglas Carter | Ambassador | 19 Sep 1976 | |
| Rt Hon Hugh Watt | Ambassador | 19 Sep 1975 | |
| Terence McCombs | Ambassador | 23 May 1973 | |
| Sir Denis Blundell | Ambassador | 26 Jun 1968 | |
| Hon Sir Thomas Macdonald | Ambassador | 19 Jan 1966 | |
| (all resident in London) | |||
| Hamish Cooper | Ambassador | 18 Oct 2006 | |
| (Prior to 2006 all resident in Ankara) | |||
| Jan Henderson | Ambassador | 26 Feb 2003 | |
| Alan Cook | Ambassador | Mar 2000 | |
| Ian Kennedy | Ambassador | 12 Nov 1996 | |
| Clive Pearson | Ambassador | 28 Feb 1996 | |
| (Prior to 1996 all resident in The Hague) | |||
| Hilary Willberg | Ambassador | 1995 | |
| Graeme Ammundsen | Ambassador | 3 Sep 1991 | |
| Ken Cunningham | Ambassador | 27 Jul 1988 | |
| Basil Bolt | Ambassador | 17 Feb 1987 | |
| Laurie Markes | Ambassador | 11 Sep 2007 | |
| Julie MacKenzie | Ambassador | 24 Sep 2003 | |
| Peter Bennett | Ambassador | 6 Nov 1998 | |
| Judith Trotter | Ambassador | 21 Sep 1994 | |
| Peter Bennett | Ambassador | 28 May 1990 | |
| Tony Small | Ambassador | 2 May 1986 | |
| Gordon Parkinson | Ambassador | 9 Mar 1983 | |
| Jim Weir | Ambassador | 26 Mar 1980 | |
| Hon Eric Halstead | Ambassador | 14 Sep 1976 | |
| Hon Phil Holloway | Ambassador | 18 May 1973 | |
| Dick Atkins | Charge d’Affaires | 17 Mar 1972 | |
| Ian Stewart | Ambassador | 1 Jul 1970 | |
| Alister McIntosh (later Sir Alister) | Ambassador | 20 Dec 1966 | |