Greg Wilcock, Consul-General Honolulu
Greg Wilcock is a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). He commenced as Australian Consul--General role in Honolulu in late July 2024, following two years leading the department’s global media operations.
As an Australian Government Senior Executive Service officer, Mr Wilcock has led strategic and foreign policy teams in different Australian agencies, working closely with US and like-minded partners on regional strategy. His experience in the region includes postings to Australia’s missions in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Bangladesh (as Australian High Commissioner) and India (as Consul-General in Mumbai).
Mr Wilcock brings to his role in Honolulu many years’ experience in Australia-US affairs. As DFAT’s Assistant Secretary US policy 2017–2019, he led efforts to advance the Australia-US strategic agenda. He also served on the board of the Fulbright Commission Australia and the Sydney US Studies Centre’s advisory committee. Earlier in his career, Mr Wilcock worked in Australia’s embassy in Washington during the peak of Australia’s Iraq and Afghanistan commitments.
Throughout his US assignments, Mr Wilcock has worked to deepen alliance cooperation alongside Defence peers in Australia and the United States. His other Defence experience includes a policy adviser deployment to Australia’s 2006 peacekeeping force in Timor-Leste, an earlier posting to Timor-Leste during the INTERFET and UNTAET peacekeeping missions, and service as an adviser to former Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith.
Mr Wilcock has also worked extensively on consular matters and crisis management, including as the head of Australia’s global consular operations during the global pandemic, and during consular contingencies in South Asia.
Mr Wilcock studied politics, international relations and Asian history at the Australian National University (BA Hons) and Monash University (Grad Dip). He is married with three children.