Английская Википедия:Elisabeth Bowes

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Distinguish Шаблон:Infobox Politician Elisabeth Mae Bowes is an Australian diplomat currently serving as the Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.[1]

From 2009-2012 Bowes was Counsellor to Australia’s Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Then, from 2012-2016, she was head of the Australian "Tobacco Plain Packaging Taskforce", during which she led Australia’s defence at the World Trade Organization in dispute settlement proceedings regarding Australia's world first tobacco plain packaging legislation.[2]

From 2016-2019 she "oversaw bilateral trade relations between the US and Australia" while posted to the Australian Embassy in Washington DC,[3] and from 2020 was the chief negotiator of the Australia–United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement.[4][5] This was the UK's first trade agreement "negotiated from scratch" post-Brexit,[6] and came into force in 2023.[7]

Bowes received Bachelor of Arts (honours) and Bachelor of Laws (honours) degrees from the University of Queensland in 1993,[8] and a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Oxford in 1997 with a theses entitled "Art of the state: plunder and restitution of cultural property".[9] Prior to joining the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade she had served at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva and a legal officer at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg.[3]

Bowes was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2021 for her work in international trade policy, with particular with reference to taskforce:[10]

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