Victoria Treadell

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Her Excellency
Victoria Treadell
CMG MVO
British High Commissioner to Australia
In office
March 2019 – April 2025
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
Prime Minister
Preceded byMenna Rawlings
Succeeded bySarah MacIntosh
British High Commissioner to Malaysia
In office
October 2014 – March 2019
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Preceded bySimon Featherstone
Succeeded byCharles Hay
Governor of Pitcairn
In office
3 June 2010 – July 2014
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byGeorge Fergusson
Succeeded byJonathan Sinclair
British High Commissioner to New Zealand and Samoa
In office
May 2010 – March 2014
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byGeorge Fergusson
Succeeded byJonathan Sinclair
Personal details
BornVictoria Marguerite Jansz
(1959-11-04) 4 November 1959 (age 66)
Ipoh, Perak, Federation of Malaya
NationalityBritish
SpouseAlan Treadell
OccupationDiplomat

Victoria Marguerite Treadell, CMG, MVO (née Jansz; born 4 November 1959) is the former High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Australia having also previously served as High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Malaysia, High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to New Zealand and Samoa, and Governor of the Pitcairn Islands.

Early life and education

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She was born on 4 November 1959 in Ipoh, Perak, Malaya (now Malaysia) to a Cantonese mother and a father of French-Dutch ancestry.[1]

Diplomatic career

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Treadell joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1978.[2] Before her posting to New Zealand, she had held postings in Pakistan, India and Malaysia.[3]

From 2010 to 2014, she served as High Commissioner to New Zealand and Governor of Pitcairn.[4] She is the first woman who served as British High Commissioner to New Zealand.[5] From October 2014 to 2019, she served as High Commissioner to Malaysia.[6]

On 12 February 2019, Treadell was announced as the next British High Commissioner to Australia, in succession to Menna Rawlings, taking up the post in March 2019.[7]

In early February 2020, Treadell took the "unprecedented"[8] step of giving two elected officials from the Parliament of Australia a "dressing down".[8] The letter, showed "stern"[9] disapproval for how Australia had revealed its security concerns over the UK's invitation to Huawei into its 5G network, which had been expressed both to her, and her Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, in a private briefing.

In 2021, she was branded as a "sanctimonious bore" by senior members of the Australian government over "publicly lecturing" Australia on its allegedly inadequate efforts to combat climate change.[10]

Personal life

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In 1985, the then Victoria Jansz married Alan Treadell.[2]

In addition, due to her interest in culture and arts, she has been one of the patrons of the Singapore-based British Theatre Playhouse since 2014, with regard to the plays that are produced in Malaysia.[11]

Honours

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She was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1989 following a visit by Elizabeth II to Malaysia.[12] In the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).[13]

References

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  1. ^ TREADELL, Victoria Marguerite, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013
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