Joe Hockey

Joe Hockey came to Washington after serving as Australia's treasurer. In 2014 he chaired the G20 meetings of finance ministers and central bank governors. ¹

He took up the ambassadorship in January 2016, working through Barack Obama's final year and Donald Trump's first three years in office. Trade and investment were central to his brief. In 2018, he joined ministers in pressing the Trump administration for Australia's exemption from steel and aluminium tariffs, an outcome announced by the Australian government in May. ^{1, 2}

After his diplomatic service, Hockey founded the advisory firm Bondi Partners and became an ambassadorial fellow at the United States Studies Centre. ¹