Ms Duncan is a senior career diplomat who has worked across a range of Australian government foreign policy priorities over more than 20 years with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has held senior diplomatic posts in Indonesia, New Zealand and Solomon Islands. In Australia, she has worked across the department’s international security, consular and bilateral areas, and as head of the Diplomatic Academy. In 2015, she received a Young Public Sector Leader Award from the Institute of Public Administration of Australia. Ms Duncan speaks Indonesian and French.