Ambassador Nicholas McCaffrey
Deputy High Commissioner Austrialan High Commission - India
Bio
Ambassador Nicholas McCaffrey is currently serving as the Deputy Head of the Mission to India, bringing over 25 years of experience as a seasoned Australian diplomat.
His career includes postings abroad to Peru (as Ambassador), the Philippines, Argentina, and Spain. Additionally, he contributed to regional stability efforts in the Pacific, having served for two years in Honiara as Adviser to the Special Coordinator of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands and, separately, as a Ceasefire Monitor in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
In Canberra, Mr. McCaffrey was most recently Head of the India Branch in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and led the department’s crisis management area at an earlier stage.
He has also served as Chief of Staff at Parliament House to the Minister for Immigration (in cabinet), the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, and the Assistant Minister for Defence.
Mr McCaffrey is married to a Spanish pastry chef, Esther, and they have three schoolaged children.