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Rebekah Grindlay

Australian diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ103824428 ↗
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Rebekah Grindlay is an Australian diplomat who served as the Ambassador to Lebanon from 2018 to 2022. She has been called "the rising star of Australian diplomacy".

Her appointment was announced 10 October 2018, and she served in the role until 2022. She currently serves as the Assistant Secretary of the India Branch with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Grindlay earned a Master of Public Policy from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Commerce from Sydney University.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rebekah Grindlay” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.