The Women of the Future Podcast: Vicki Treadell CMG, MVO

A career diplomat with a wide range of experience both in policy and service delivery, Vicki Treadell is the current High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Australia, having taken up her posting in April 2019.

Vicki previously held the same role in Malaysia, and also served as the first woman British High Commissioner to New Zealand and Samoa, and Governor of Pitcairn; before this Vicki was British Deputy High Commissioner in Mumbai, heading the UK’s Western India team, from 2006-2010.

 

A Eurasian born in Malaysia, to a Cantonese mother and a father of French-Dutch ancestry, Vicki’s family moved to the UK when she was a child. It was during a ‘year-out’ before hoping to go on to university that she joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the late 70s and never looked back.

 

A distinguished career that has navigated natural disasters, major terrorist incidents and not to mention a global pandemic; on a personal level Vicki is passionate about youth engagement, as well as women’s and children’s rights.

A believer that leadership requires compassion, collaboration, confidence and courage.

 

Vicki was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1989 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2010.

She won the 2009 Asian Women of Achievement Award for Public Service and received an Honorary Degree from Reading University in 2016.

Vicki is also Chair of the Women of the Future South East Asia judging panel.

 

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