EU names three new ambassadors

Changes affect the EU’s delegations in Australia, Norway and Thailand.

A member of the private office of the European Council’s president is to become the European Union’s ambassador to Australia.  

Sem Fabrizi is expected to take up his post after the summer, about 14 months before the end of Herman Van Rompuy’s second term as president of the European Council.

Fabrizi has previously served as diplomatic adviser on EU and Asian affairs in the office of the Italian prime minister.  

The current ambassador to Australia is David Daly, an Irish diplomat who has been in the post since January 2009.  

Two other ambassadors were named today, one promoted from within the EU’s diplomatic service and the other drawn from Spain’s diplomatic corps. 

Jesús Miguel Sanz Escorihuela will leave his post as Spain’s ambassador to New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa and Tonga to become the head of the EU’s delegation in Thailand. The current ambassador, David Lipman, a Briton who formerly worked in the European Commission, was named to the post in 2008.  

There will also be a new ambassador in Norway. Helen Campbell, a Briton, is currently the head of the policy co-ordination division in the European External Action Service. She will replace János Herman, a Hungarian who has been the EU’s representative in Oslo since September 2009.

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