Jenny Polyxeni Bloomfield is the Australian Representative to Taiwan since February 1, 2021,[1] succeeding Gary Cowan.[2][3][4] and was the Australian Ambassador to Greece[4] from 2011 until 2014 with non-resident accreditation to Albania and Bulgaria.[5] She is both the first woman and the first person of Greek descent to hold that position.
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Bloomfield earned a Master of Arts in Foreign Affairs and Trade from Monash University, a Bachelor of Letters in Political Science and French and a Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Arts in Modern Greek from the University of Melbourne.[5][3]
The mother of 4 children, Bloomfield speaks 8 languages[which?]including Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien. During her tenure in Taiwan, she is known as Lu zhen-yi (露珍怡), the Chinese name she chooses for herself with the meaning of "precious dew", and the last character of her given name is a combination of Xin(忄) and Tai (台), standing for "heart" and "Taiwan" respectively.[6]