Australian High Commissioner to Brunei Darussalam

Michael Hoy is a career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) with substantive posted and policy leadership on Southeast Asia. He was most recently Senior Adviser, Quad at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He was part of the leadership team responsible for the 2024 ASEAN-Australia Special Summit and was Director of DFAT’s Indonesia Political Section for the signing of the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Plan of Action. Michael played frontline leadership roles in Kabul for the 2021 humanitarian evacuation and in Kyiv during the MH17 response. He has previously served overseas in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Belgium, Japan and at Australia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. Michael speaks Vietnamese, Japanese and French.

Education:

2008 University of Canberra - Master of International Trade Law
2004 Bond University - Bachelor of Commerce
2004 Bond University - Bachelor of International Relations
2001 Australian Music Examination Board - Associate of Music

Career:

2024 Senior Adviser, Quad, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C)
2023 Senior Adviser, Maritime, ASEAN-Australia Special Summit, PM&C
2023 Director, UN Security Council Campaign, Multilateral Policy Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
2022-2023 Counsellor (Strategic, Public Affairs), UN New York
2020-2021 Director, Indonesia Political Section, Office of Southeast Asia, DFAT
2017-2020 Counsellor (Public Affairs), Australian Embassy to Japan
2014 First Secretary (Trade), Australian Embassy and Mission to the European Union and NATO
2013-2014 First Secretary (Political), Australian Embassy to Afghanistan, Kabul
2012-2013 Portfolio Budget Coordinator, DFAT
2008-2011 Third Secretary (Political), Australian Embassy to Viet Nam, Hanoi
2005 Graduate Trainee, DFAT